Posted on 04/10/2005 5:50:12 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany, mounts a new work by performance-artist Vanessa Beecroft. The show is as transparent as the modernist masterpiece building itself: the living models are all nude.
It isn't everyday that you see 100 naked women standing in the lobby of Berlin's New National Gallery. But on Thursday and Friday, a mass of women between the ages of 18 and 65 stood in the Mies van der Rohe-designed glass and steel architectural monument, wearing nothing but almond oil and see-through tights. The women are part of artist Vanessa Beecroft's new show "VB 55."
For three hours, the women stand -- in various degrees of slow-motion movement -- just 20 meters away from the museum's visitors. The artist discourages any movement -- after all, the women are meant to look like statues and create the impression of a living image. Beecroft, who was born in Genoa, Italy, and now lives in New York, has given them an entire laundry list of rules: don't talk, don't interact, don't laugh, don't talk to others, don't move to fast. Under no circumstances should anyone act sexily -- after all, this is art, not Playboy.
Models in Beecroft's "VB 55" appear before museum-goers for three straight hours.
With the show, Beecroft says she wants to explore the power of beauty -- not that of Heidi Klum or other supermodels, but that of everyday women from all parts of society. They're here, too, with red hair, brunette hair, blonde hair, you name it. The models are perfectly framed, too, by one of Europe's most exquisite examples of modern architecture, van der Rohe's museum for the city of Berlin, which Beecroft describes as the "ideal of modernist architecture." This weekend, it's also a great place for voyeurism.
Having viewed the photos on the web page, I think that it might NOT be such a great place for voyeurism........but then, I'm not a guy, either. Still........it takes a bit of tolerance for the ordinary........
I thought you are suppose to smile when naked?
Then get yourself married like a normal person. Is that so bad?
Boobies are boobies.
Seriously, how does a sea of meat become more attractive than one naked babe standing in your living room?
"Beauty", my @ss.
I'm getting awfully sick of fake "art," admired by all the "art critics" and paid for by the taxpayers.
Gosh... they all look so happy to be there... so edified to be exposed to the entire world... so liberated in their femininity...
Or is that humiliation?
Hope they don't keep it too cold in there.
And the impact of this "ART" in three thousand years
will be...?????
Exactly.
Can't imagine the line at the women's room after 3 hours of this.
To be fair, if I were in their position, I wouldn't be smiling either.
From Camilla's herd? Man...bunch of ungroomed horses.
Wonder if they're all blond and blue eyed. Of course at 65, I'm kind of surprised those are even alive...must not be of the Judeo persuasion. This is a sick world. I will stay here as long as He wishes, but I won't miss it when I'm gone. (that's the title of my new C/W song...)
FMCDH(BITS)
Ziss iss ze time on der Spiegel venn ve dance.
"Performance Art" is neither
Yeah, in this hectic life we lead, sometime ya just gotta stop and look at the t*ts.
That's really funny! Great response - clever, wolfpat!
........and HI to you, too, nothingnew!
Char :)
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