When we last checked in with Spencer Tunick policemen in Britain were selling security tapes of his last large photo shoot – these days we find him in Mexico with his largest installation to date. Mireya Escalante, a Mexico City-based art consultant who is representing Mr Tunick, expects the participants to top 9,000.
Ms Escalante says it has been difficult to secure institutional cooperation and financial backing for the project. Public nudity is not an easy subject in Catholic Mexico (even though demonstrators for peasants’ rights have recently been disrobing en masse downtown), and politicians, arts organisations and sponsors have shied away from the potential controversy.
The rest of this story, with all the ridiculous religious problems to be expected with public nudity can be found at The Art Newspaper.
Hello Matthew,
We at http://www.spencertunickforum.org are following this story closely as we have several members who might wish to take part. We are a group of people who are past particpants in Spencer’s art, or those who are interested in his work. We have some of his lesser known works, news photos, and accounts of events, including his 3 installations of this year:Caracas, Venezuela, San Sebastian, Spain and Dusseldorf, Germany. Over 7,000 of those 9,000 who have signed up would have to participate to be larger than the Barcelona, Spain instellation.
Roger
Well that makes sense to me – thanks for the clarificaion – it sounds like it might be a great project to be involved in.