Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft (1969) was an artist. In April 1998, in its historic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presented Show, a piece of performance art in which the artist lined up 15 girls in red bathing suits and high heels, and 5 more wearing only shoes. The costumes and shoes were designed by Tom Ford for Gucci. These complex and enigmatic representations of the contemporary woman, or of inanimate dummies, lead one to reflect on the identity and the elements which contribute to a definition of her as fashion. Since the start of her career in the 1990s, Beecroft has presented, in places suitable for artistic events such as museums, galleries, and concert halls, performance art featuring somewhat off-putting female characters in high heels and underwear.
Exhibit at the Kunsthalle in Vienna.
The guests at Beecroft’s wedding, celebrated a few weeks before in Portofino, become the protagonists of her performance art piece VBGDW (Vanessa Beecroft & Greg Durkin Wedding), shown at the Jeffrey Deitch Projects gallery in New York. Vogue Italia devoted an article to the event.
Publication of Vanessa Beecroft Performances by Hatje Kantz, a book dedicated to the first period of her art.
She participated in the Venice Biennial with performance art that was between theater and fashion, using choreographed models looking off into the distance and making almost imperceptible movements.