Spencer Tunick
24 Jun - 30 Jul 2008
schaufenster: Spencer Tunick, Nacktinstallation im Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Wien, 11.5.2008 zu sehen am Kunsthalle Wien public space karlsplatz © Foto: Stephan Wyckoff
showcase: SPENCER TUNICK
"The Beautiful Game"
Kunsthalle Wien public space karlsplatz,
June 24th - July 30th, 2008
Since 1992, US artist Spencer Tunick (born in 1967) has been documenting naked people in public space in photographs and videos. He has realized 75 site-specific installations with human bodies all over the world since 1994. All actors take part voluntarily and without payment and only get a signed photograph in return for their participation. His works have increasingly become more complex and elaborate: meanwhile, Tunick arranges up to several thousand people to often spectacular body installations in buildings, squares, streets, parks, or landscapes. The performance involving the greatest number of participants took place in Latin America in 2007. About 18,000 people posed in a square in Mexico City as human building blocks for Tunick’s body architectures. In the same year, 600 people followed the artist to the Aletsch Glacier: the pictures he took of the nude bodies in the ice and scree landscape were to draw attention to the worldwide climate change.
Spencer Tunick’s most recent performance was realized as an art event in the context of the EURO 2008 at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadion, where the final of the tournament is scheduled to take place. 1,840 people participated in this performance, in which Tunick thematized the relationship between sports and the body. This work, which Tunick considers “his most difficult” venture so far, was the artist’s second performance in Vienna. He already realized some works for the Kunsthalle Wien along the “Zweierlinie” (line 2) involving 400 people in 1999.
"The Beautiful Game"
Kunsthalle Wien public space karlsplatz,
June 24th - July 30th, 2008
Since 1992, US artist Spencer Tunick (born in 1967) has been documenting naked people in public space in photographs and videos. He has realized 75 site-specific installations with human bodies all over the world since 1994. All actors take part voluntarily and without payment and only get a signed photograph in return for their participation. His works have increasingly become more complex and elaborate: meanwhile, Tunick arranges up to several thousand people to often spectacular body installations in buildings, squares, streets, parks, or landscapes. The performance involving the greatest number of participants took place in Latin America in 2007. About 18,000 people posed in a square in Mexico City as human building blocks for Tunick’s body architectures. In the same year, 600 people followed the artist to the Aletsch Glacier: the pictures he took of the nude bodies in the ice and scree landscape were to draw attention to the worldwide climate change.
Spencer Tunick’s most recent performance was realized as an art event in the context of the EURO 2008 at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadion, where the final of the tournament is scheduled to take place. 1,840 people participated in this performance, in which Tunick thematized the relationship between sports and the body. This work, which Tunick considers “his most difficult” venture so far, was the artist’s second performance in Vienna. He already realized some works for the Kunsthalle Wien along the “Zweierlinie” (line 2) involving 400 people in 1999.