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Among the world’s most celebrated Italian artists, Vanessa Beecroft is the protagonist of a solo exhibition curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bergamo (until 29 July).

Among the world’s most celebrated Italian artists, Vanessa Beecroft is the protagonist of a solo exhibition curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bergamo (until 29 July).

For the first time the spotlight is not on the performances that made her famous (the renowned living paintings populated by semi-naked, icy and immobile female models) but rather on her actual paintings, which represent the first and most intimate stage of her work.

Thus 35 canvases and 450 drawings and watercolours on paper reveal the lesser-known and by no means secondary side of her artistic journey, which in fact developed from painting. Indeed her performances are rooted in more traditional artwork, from the metaphysical atmospheres of De Chirico to the Flemish renaissance, Botticelli and Piero della Francesca. E.S.

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Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Collezione privata, Roma
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Collezione privata, Roma
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1995. Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1995. Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini, Collezione privata
Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled, 1996. Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini, Collezione privata

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