Bottega veneta dresses performance artists inspired by Bruce Nauman

Art and fashion come together in the spaces of the Pinault Collection in Venice, where the holding company that manages the family’s collections is promoting Dancing Studies, a series of dance performances created in dialogue with its Punta della Dogana exhibition Bruce Nauman: Contraposto Studies, running at Palazzo Grassi through Nov. 27, 2022.

It will be the Italian fashion and luxury goods house Bottege Veneta that will fully dress the artists in the performances that will animate the various venues of the Pinault Collection until June 19, 2022 and are inspired by contemporary art guru Bruce Nauman ((Fort Wayne, Dec. 6, 1941), an American sculptor, video artist photographer and performance artist. For his first collection as creative director of Bottega Veneta, presented last season in Milan, Matthieu Blazy was inspired by Boccioni’s famous sculpture, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913). His purposeful stride was the same as the models and models did while wearing the clothes with sculptural silhouettes.

Now Bottega Veneta is taking on a new artistic initiative, right in Venice, the brand’s hometown. William Forsythe, Lenio Kaklea, Ralph Lemon and Pam Tanowitz have designed four performance actions that will take place in different spaces of the Pinault Collection in Venice and at COSMO, Campo San Cosmo, Giudecca with the involvement of sound designers and performers. The exhibition presents Nauman’s experimental performance, sound, and new multimedia works centered on the human body, beginning with a reinterpretation of his 1968 video. Walk with Contraposto in which the artist attempts to maintain a chiastic pose while walking down a hallway in his studio.

The show’s curators, Carlos Basualdo and Caroline Bourgeois, recruited top choreographers to develop new performances inspired by Nauman’s work. William Forsythe last month performed the first work in Dance Studies, a two-part event at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. This week, American dancer and choreographer Pam Tanowitz presents (through May 5, 2022) Study mapping, where dancers rehearse and perform simultaneously in the foyer of the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi amid video projections exploring the theme of the late Renaissance.

Bottega veneta dresses performance artists inspired by Bruce Nauman

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