This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Italian born, Vanessa Beecroft's live events, reminiscent of fashion shows, theater, and film scenes are recorded through photography and video, but her "conceptual approach is actually closer to painting." In her performances and exhibition openings they silently take up their positions, moving very little, standing before the public like living pictures.
"Beecroft is making contemporary versions of the complex figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the Renaissance onwards. She sets up a structure for the participants in her live events to create their own composition, presenting themselves according to their own internalized aesthetic system (PAF)."
She is not involved in the performances as a model, but gives instructions to the models. Beecroft explains, "I am not certain what exactly her motive or purpose is, I may need to search a bit more to find her personal statements. To me, the models look like mannequins almost, so it makes me think of conformity. They seem aloof, sad, and the same. Some look like women posing as a typical model would do. Some women look extremely thin. That is what my first observation was: that maybe she was trying to show what models do to their bodies to look a certain way. However, I don't think she would exploit that assumption at their expense."
Vanessa Beecroft has created over forty-two live events, including such international venues as: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1999), Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo (1999), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1998), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998), Venice Biennale (1997), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1997).
Source:
Christoph Blase, "Art at the Turn of the Millennium"
Public Art Fund
Vanessa Beecroft, cmpa.ca.scad.edu/faculty/pasqu... |
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