The Italian maverick artist Francesco Vezzoli is creating a shrine to the late movie star Marlene Dietrich in Monaco later this month. Vezzoli, known for his star-studded 2005 film, Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, will fill the Belle Epoque residence, the Villa Sauber, with posters, pictures and sculptures of the German screen siren famous for her femme fatale roles of the 1930s (Villa Marlene, 29 April-11 September). “It would seem that Marlene Dietrich was a great admirer of Giacometti,” says a press statement (with more than a hint of understatement). “Vezzoli has thus imagined that, in a sudden fit of narcissism, the actress decided to commission the greatest artists of her day to produce works for which she was the only model. Made by copyists, portraits in the styles of Modigliani, Matisse, De Chirico, Magritte and De Lempicka fill the villa’s different rooms.” Vezzoli says that everything is fake. “But it is as if everything were true. I want to play on the idea of shifting, the way the Situationists did,” he adds. The mischief-maker evidently loves legendary divas; last year, he made a film starring the US artist Cindy Sherman as an ageing opera star modelled on the late, great singer Maria Callas.