EntertainmentSpencer Tunick Exhibition
Tue, Jun 25 2007
Spencer Tunick's performances are large in scale and the artists relies on hundreds or thousands of volunteers who in taking their clothes of become an abstract mass, challenging or reconfiguring society's views of nudity and privacy.
So who is Spencer Tunick? According to The New Yorker magazine: "Before he became known for his elaborate and controversial photo 'happenings' staging shots of hundreds of naked people in tourist sites around the world Tunick was a photography assistant to his father, shooting banquets and other events in upstate New York. These portraits have a wonderful eye for period detail and a tongue-in-cheek humour, echoed by a bowl of equally wizened pickles on a table."
This event proves that really we're not such a conservative society anymore. We're freeing ourselves of taboos
Tunick works directly with the urban landscape in a very personal style; using the nude body as a raw material to intervene and transform a chosen site, and then documenting the events with photography and video. He is widely celebrated for his elaborately posed photographs of nude figures in public settings. His installations have taken place across the globe in cities including Montreal, Melbourne, Santiago, Barcelona and Lyon. The artist gathers hundreds of volunteers for each project and has, at any one time, attracted from 500 - 7000 participants.
Spencer Tunick was born in Middletown, New York in 1969. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His installations include the Vienna Kunsthalle 1999, and Statements at Art 30 Basel 1999. Tunick has had exhibitions at I-20 Gallery, New York City; Art and Public, Geneva; and Hales Gallery, London. His works were recently acquired by the Dakis Joannou Foundation Collection in Athens, Greece. In June 2001, Spencer Tunick organised his first indoor installation with Site Santa Fe, New Mexico and was included in the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial in 2002. Tunick's recent installations and exhibitions include the Saatchi Gallery, London 2003; Moca Cleveland 2004; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 2004 and the Lyon Biennial 2005.
"A body is a living empathy. It represents life, freedom, sensuality, and it is a mechanism to carry out our thoughts. A body is always beautiful to me. It depends on the individual work and what I do with it and what kind of idea lies behind it - if age matters or not. But in my group works, the only difference is how far people can go if it rains, snows etc." (Spencer Tunick)
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