Conceptual Art
• Fifteen of the women
Performance Art wore rhinestone (diamante)
decorated bikinis and high-heeled
shoes designed by Tom Ford for
Gucci
• and five of the women were nude,
• with a trace of beige foundation
body makeup to create the image
of "artificial" nudity.
VANESSA BEECROFT
1969 -
English, Italian
Beecroft's work often explores themes of
identity, beauty, gender, and consumer
culture.
CONCEPT / MEANING
• SHOW assembles a “living
portrait” of models clothed in red
monotone rhinestone (diamante)-
decorated bikinis and high-heeled
shoes; - which shows
glamourisation and obsession
with materialistic items
Beecroft, SHOW, 1998
• SHOW draws attention to how
One-night live performance art piece, consumers are led to purchase
held at the Guggenheim Museum in New through the use of images
York, featuring twenty live female (CONSUMERISM / ADVERTISING)
models both clothed and unclothed,
specifically dressed and presented to the • Five of the models are naked with
viewer in the gallery. a trace of beige foundation body
makeup to create the image of
• Fifteen of the women
Performance Art wore rhinestone (diamante)
decorated bikinis and high-heeled
shoes designed by Tom Ford for
Gucci
• and five of the women were nude,
• with a trace of beige foundation
body makeup to create the image
of "artificial" nudity.
VANESSA BEECROFT
1969 -
English, Italian
Beecroft's work often explores themes of
identity, beauty, gender, and consumer
culture.
CONCEPT / MEANING
• SHOW assembles a “living
portrait” of models clothed in red
monotone rhinestone (diamante)-
decorated bikinis and high-heeled
shoes; - which shows
glamourisation and obsession
with materialistic items
Beecroft, SHOW, 1998
• SHOW draws attention to how
One-night live performance art piece, consumers are led to purchase
held at the Guggenheim Museum in New through the use of images
York, featuring twenty live female (CONSUMERISM / ADVERTISING)
models both clothed and unclothed,
specifically dressed and presented to the • Five of the models are naked with
viewer in the gallery. a trace of beige foundation body
makeup to create the image of
