Vanessa Beecroft

VB70 Performance 2011, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano / Photos by Vanessa Beecroft and Genarro Navarra

 

The models and marble sculptures in this work are presented as a group, in a single tableau.

The models, each of whom are painted a single color — green, blue, pink, or black — sit still, like statues, mimicking the marble sculptures of various parts of the female body. Some sculptures are carved from white marble, others from colored marble — azul macaubas, green onyx, green laguna, red France, blue sodalite, black Belgium, pink Portuguese, yellow marble from Iran, alabaster, blue lapis lazuli, and breccia medicea. The richness of the marble and the randomness of the colors are familiar. But the carved marbles are not entirely realistic, and the unnatural color of the women truncates the natural psychology of touch.

VB70 Performance 2011, Galleria Lia Rumma,…