Photo credit: Breda Beban (Serbian born, 1952). Video still from The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha

LOUISVILLE, KY.-The Speed Art Museum is proud to announce the acquisition of a video work described as the “sexiest work of art at this year’s Venice Biennial,” The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha by London-based, Serbian-born artist Breda Beban.
This installation will be on view at the New Center for Contemporary Art, located at 725 East Market Street beginning from September 20 through November 24, 2007.
Beban’s work was donated to the collection of the Speed Art Museum in memory of activist and philanthropist Minx Auerbach, a Louisville native and longtime member of the New Art Collectors group of the Speed. Beban’s work shows a young Gypsy woman belly-dancing for money at an annual village brass band festival in central Serbia. The viewer plays witness to the dancer’s seduction of a young man in a scene filled with sweat, glances, gazes and touches. The music sets the tone of the scene as it transitions between a riotous Gypsy band and then slowing down the motion with more seductive melody. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21803