Performance vb 47

Performance  by Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft inszeniert seit den frühen 1990ern vor allem performative Situation mit Frauen.. Im Unterschied zur Tradition der Performance ist die Künstlerin hier nicht selbst involviert, sondern nur als Regisseurin im Hintergrund.

»… die Hohepriesterin einer faszinierend neuen Kunstform irgendwo zwischen Theater, Bildhauerei und klassischer Malerei.«

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VB 47, Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy.

 

Vanessa Beecroft works in the gap between art and life. The work is neither performance nor documentary, but something in between. Her live events are recorded through photography and film, but her conceptual approach is actually closer to painting. 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.

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