Featured artist: Vanessa Beecroft

.featured artists	May 25, 2012
Vanessa Beecroft, vb45.9043.ali, 2001, performance at the Kunsthallie Wien, Vienna, image courtesy of Vanessa Beecroft
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. more details. www.itsliquid.com It's LIQUID News is an e-mail announcement service that provides information about exhibitions at some of the world's leading art galleries selected. It's LIQUID News reaches the combined audiences of International Art Fairs, galleries, museums, and is thus a powerful tool for getting directly to this influential audience with information about exhibition programs and other events. International galleries, museums, institutions, private and public groups, artists, architects, designers, are invited to join It's LIQUID News service. Each advertisement takes the form of an e-mail announcement, and features a press release, an image, and a link to the announcer's website. Announcements are distributed directly to over 80,000 international collectors, consultants, advisers, critics, writers, curators, dealers and other visual arts professionals. Database demographics: 40% in North America, 45% in Europe, 15% in other locations (South America, Australia, Japan, etc.). Additionally all announcements are permanently archived on It's LIQUID web site, creating a valuable research resource of some of the most important events world wide. It's LIQUID News offers an unprecedented opportunity for participating clients to reach the most dynamic members of the community of professionals worldwide. If you are interested in our services, or you want to open an It's LIQUID office in your city, please contact us at info@itsliquid.com Thanks for all, It's LIQUID Group more details. www.itsliquid.com