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Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft, born April 25, 1969, is an Italian
contemporary artist from Genoa living in Los Angeles.
The artist’s work is a fusion of conceptual
issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance
art, usually involving live female models (often
nude). At her performances, video recordings and photographs are
made, to be exhibited as documentation of the
performances, but also as separate works of
art.
The work and her conceptual approach is neither performance
nor documentary, but something in between, and
closer to Renaissance painting. She sets up a structure
for the participants in her live events to create their
own ephemeral composition. The performances are
existential encounters between models and audience, their shame
and their expectations. Each performance is made for
a specific location and often references the
political, historical, or social
associations of the place where it is held. Beecroft’s work is deceptively
simple in its execution, provoking questions
around identity politics and voyeurism in the complex relationship between
viewer, model and
context.
Beecroft’s first exhibition was VB01, in
Milan, 1993, in which she presented a series of drawings along
with the past eight years of her Food
Diary. The following year she exhibited in New York
for the first time, at the
Andrea Rosen Gallery
in New York. Beecroft’s performances have taken place at many notable art
institutions: VB28 at the Venice Biennale in 1997; VB35 at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1998; VB40 at the
MCA, Sydney, Australia in 1999; VB43
at the Gagosian Gallery in London in 2000; VB45 at the Vienna
Kunsthalle in 2001; VB50
at the São Paulo
Bienal, Brazil in 2002; VB52, part of a retrospective
show, at the Castello di Rivoli in 2003;
VB54 at an exhibit called
Terminal 5 at the TWA Flight Center of JFK Airport in 2004, an
exhibition that closed abruptly after the building
itself was vandalized during an opening party.
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Featured artist: Vanessa Beecroft
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