The Independent Art Fair will launch a new fair in September this year that will focus on 20th Century Works. “Over the years, there has been a shift, with next-generation dealers showing a more diverse group of artists and territories, geographically, socially, politically,” says Independent director Elizabeth Dee. “They are looking forward and looking back, saying, ‘We need to have a canon that looks like our program.’”
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Vanessa Beecroft
[image via www.kunsthandelmeijer.nl/]
Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa, Italy, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles. Beecroft is married to sociologist Greg Durkin. They have two sons.
Sudan- Sundance Film Festival, 2008
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Beecroft uses a unique, personal, artistic language. Her work is a complex fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude).
[via Wikipedia Entry]
‘VB.LP.001.00′, 2000
[image via www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk]
Alphabet Concept- At Louis Vuitton
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Jennifer- 2005, bronze
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Artist’s Video
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