For her second exhibition at the Galleria Minini, Vanessa Beecroft presents a collection of large photographs and the video of a recent performance, number 53(VB53), created at the Giardino dell’Orticultura in Florence last year, for the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery.

In the setting of the nineteenth century building, the artist, originally from Genoa, placed 21 nude models on a mound of dark earth. The group gradually decomposes, at which point the girls fall to the ground.The earth, dark and wet like that of cultivated fields, is a reference to land art. Beecroft explains, “the performance juxtaposes the purity of the female body, its nudity, to the dirty colour and substance of the earth”. E.S.

Brescia – Italy
Vanessa Beecroft. VB 53
29.5.2005 – 20.9.2005
Galleria Massimo Minini, via Apollonio 68
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