Vanessa Beecroft

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Vanessa Beecroft as "White Madonna with Twins" in Rumbek Cathedral (2006)

Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969 in Genoa ) is an Italian performance artist .

life and career

Vanessa Beecroft was born in 1969 in the Ligurian port city of Genoa as the daughter of a Briton and an Italian. From 1983 to 1987 she studied architecture in Genoa and from 1988 to 1993 stage design at the Brera in Milan . Since 1994 she has been presenting room productions around the world with partially nude, stylized female and male models as tableaus. In contrast to the classical performance , the artist is not directly involved, but acts as a director in the background. Vanessa Beecroft lives on Long Island in the US state of New York .

Spencer Tunick makes similar body sculptures , but he only works with amateurs and mostly in free space.

She has two sons from her marriage to Greg Durkin.

Exhibitions

  • 2014: Boom She Boom. Works from the collection , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: NOT IN FASHION. Fashion and photography of the 90s , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008: Some works are part of the exhibition in the Hotel Blow Up Hall 5050, run by the Polish art collector Grażyna Kulczyk in Poznan

literature

  • Performances 1993-2003 , Skira, Milano 2003, ISBN 88-8491-572-4 (English, French, Italian).

Web links

Commons : Vanessa Beecroft  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 9, 2018 ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mmk-frankfurt.de
  3. ↑ Hotel Blow Up Hall 5050: Art and Luxury in Poland | FrontRowSociety - The Magazine . In: FrontRowSociety - The Magazine . May 1, 2018 ( frontrowsociety.net [accessed August 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Beecroft, Vanessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa