VB62 - Teaser from Caroline Smulders
Vanessa Beecroft was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1969 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown internationally since 1993, and often presents provocative social commentary and critique. Beecroft is noted for her innovative performances and unconventional approach to the creation of images and communication. Since 2008 sculpture is the genre that the artist has been exploring and “redefining”, together with performance art, in what has increasingly become an investigation and synthesis of the terrain vague that unites “the arts of time and the arts of space”. “The unnatural juxtaposition between the life and warmth of the bodies and the cold stillness of stone - says the artist - highlights the melancholy and fascination of sculpture”.
Her performances consist of tableaux vivants that comprise real people often naked, that are placed by the artist in museums or gallery spaces. silent, indifferent, and scantily dressed and either stroll about or sit down slowly, following a choreography painstakingly prepared by the artist down to the very last detail. With their pale and bored-looking expressions, these female beauties who lack passion or aims seem to have lost all pleasure and fecundity, and represent a model of beauty capable of re-appropriating the body and sucking out the vitality.
