-
X
Forgot Password

Forgot Password?
(Enter your email below.)


Cancel

Not a member?
Create your account today!

Search from over 100,000 items available at auction now


Advanced
Search
Learn how to bid
  • Add this artist to my Invaluable Auction Search Alerts

Vanessa Beecroft (1969-)

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Vanessa Beecroft

    Vanessa Beecroft

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Vanessa Beecroft , VB 48, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

    Vanessa Beecroft , VB 48, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Vanessa Beecroft

    Vanessa Beecroft

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Vanessa Beecroft (b. 1969)

    Vanessa Beecroft (b. 1969)

Vanessa Beecroft Biography

(born 1969, Genoa, Italy) Italian contemporary artist. Vanessa Beecroft studied architecture at the Civico Liceo Artistico Nicol Barabino Architettura, Genoa (1983-7), painting at the Accademia Ligustica Di Belle Arti Pittura, Genoa (1987-8), and stage design at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Brera, in Milan, Italy (1988-93). Beecroft’s first exhibit, VB01, took place in Milan in 1993 and featured a series of drawings along with the past eight years of her ‘Food Diary.’ Her work was exhibited for the first time in New York at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1994. “Famed for her performances and exhibition openings, Vanessa Beecroft presents the evidence of these events in videos and photographic stills. Her work inhabits a realm where the lines between fashion, performance art, voyeurism and feminist commentary blur. Scantily clad and sometimes thinly disguised women are placed before our eyes, barely moving, and we as the viewers are confronted with a human painting. As Collier Schorr has said of the artist ‘Beecroft is interested in the aesthetics of how women look when they are looked at, and her body-conscious projects encourage alienation between model, artist and audience.’ The artist herself asserts: ‘I am interested in the difference between what I expect and what actually happens.’" In Beecroft’s exhibitions, the viewer is challenged with the task to combine the context of the performance with the visual effects of its appearance in order to fully comprehend the work. Often, the stark nudity of the figures presents the visual effect of integration, in which nudity becomes the costume or uniform Beecroft has assigned to her models. Simultaneously, the nude models as a whole have been described as representing Beecroft’s own standpoint on how the female body should be viewed, versus how it is actually viewed. Presently, Vanessa Beecroft lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Credit: Christie's, London, Contemporary Art, February 6, 2002, Lot 114

Back to the Top

Vanessa Beecroft at Auction Now

View all Vanessa Beecroft at Auction Now

Back to the Top

Vanessa Beecroft Sold at AuctionView all Vanessa Beecroft Sold at Auction

Back to the Top

Need Full Access to Our Artist Database?

Log in or subscribe for access to: artist alerts, price estimate, auction house name, auction title, location & date, and more...

Subscribe Now

Answer your questions about your favourite artist's works and their value or bid online for your chance to own a piece by Vanessa Beecroft. Invaluable's Vanessa Beecroft artist profile page includes: Vanessa Beecroft biographical information, work by Vanessa Beecroft available at auction now, and prices realised for Vanessa Beecroft recently sold at auction.

  • Sign Up For Free Email Updates

Thank you!
Why not register for a
FREE account today?