"VB64" Performance/Sculpture by Vanessa Beecroft

[1] YOOOOOO WHY WON'T YOU LET VANESSA BEECROFT BE GREAT?!?

[1] epic rant inspired by Mr. Kanye West

We took our people-watching obsession to the next level at Vanessa Beecroft's VB64. THis being Vanessa's first show in New York since 2000, we expected to be in various states of sensory assault/ecstasy both by her work and the crowd we anticipated would be in attendance.

*we won't lie, we wanted to see the girl with the denim hotpants. We. love. her. She was there, sans hotpants...

Rows of heavily gessoed nudes, 20 live, dispersed amid sculptural casts meant to blur the line between the real and the inanimate, life and death, we wondered also if the stone faced revelers @ Deitch were somehow part of the installation because they certainly nailed Beecroft's point home. Possibly the spectating crowd made her message a bit too literal...

*ambivalence is lame.

Give the woman a break kids, she gave you nudity, a statement, and forced you to stare at vaginas to see if what you were looking at was real or sculpture - crack a smile, giggle nervously... something. The filming of the show was produced by Kanye West, where was his all-caps energy when we needed it? The show is up until April 12, please go check it out. Maybe it was just the opening crowd that had no pulse...

*well Vanessa, we loved it.

[ *yli ]

Photo Source: email

Artist Credit: Vanessa Beecroft