Vogue Hommes 2002 From the portfolio Double Exposure Two Pigment prints on photo rag paper, 61 x 49 cm (24 x 19¼") ea. Edition of 45, with a signed and numbered certificate.
Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969 in Genoa, Italy, lives and works in New York) does something that nobody else does - she does images live, and that changes everything. Even though most viewers probably only know her work through photographs and videos, it´s the staging and theatricality of the live event that make these images of girls, whose vacancy and seductive appeal are equally pronounced, so compelling. In Beecroft´s body arrangements, there is a charged and yet restrained atmosphere created by the tension between broken taboos and ancient ideals of beauty, between eroticism and the charm of naked show-window dummies. The artist makes contemporary versions of the complex figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the Renaissance onwards.
From the portfolio Double Exposure
