Jennifer Statuario - Vanessa Beecroft

Jennifer Statuario - Vanessa Beecroft 2015 4x6x5m. On display will be one sculpture and four marble blocks covered
in blue wax. The sculpture derives from a real-life impression of
the artist’s sister, which the artist worked on in Sicily in 2007. The
sculpture is in double life size scale and in white marble (Sivec
and golden Calacatta). Jennifer’s body is installed head down,
on a column, tied with cords and wedged between four large
blocks of marble.
The blocks are placed as if in a deposit, one on top of the
other, reaching a height of 4 m.
The blocks are placed as they are in the deposit after leaving
the quarry, covered in blue wax and not shaped.
The figure is executed in the classic figurative style. The original
breasts, hands and feet have been replaced by feet, hands
and breasts in semitransparent veined white onyx, closer to the
original model and idea of the artist, an operation similar to that
of the collage created shortly before this exhibition.
The position of the sculpture (head down), its compression
between four blocks of marble and the inserts of white onyx
destabilise the idea of classic style and are closer to the concept
of “membre fantome” which the artist explores in her photographs
of performances and drawings from 1993 to the present.
The fragmentation of the body as a synonym of the loss of
the individual, in the case of Beecroft, a woman.