Santiago, Chile (Museo de Arte Contemporanea) April 26, 2002, 2004 Digital video on DVD 2 min. 44 sec. Spencer Tunick North by southwest MOGADISHNI is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Denmark by Spencer Tunick (born 1967). In the exhibition Tunick will be showing the video "Santiago, Chile (Museo de Arte Contemporaneá) April 26", 2002 and three large stills from Brugge, Helsinki and Argentina, respectively. Tunick is world renowned for his ingenious and controversial installations in which he gathers a large number of naked people in the public space and documents the séance in photography and video. By doing so he creates a living and vital setting in which human bodies fuse into one large, organic entity that - like a fluid substance - softens and humanizes different closed and regulated urban structures; or becomes a sensuous sculptural or architectonical piece in itself. The transformation of body and space is, however, only one part of Tunick's work which from 1994 and to this day adds up to more than 65 temporary, site-specific installations. The artist himself stresses the importance of challenging and re-arranging not only social and political points of disagreements concerning art in public spaces but also in particular our notion of nakedness and the private sphere. Tunick is concerned with an appreciation of the less perfect and the different and the artist assigns a high priority to human equality and dignity. Tunick's works contain several references to the art of the 20. Century, especially land-art, but what seems to be the most distinctive feature of his artistic story is that the path to Art goes through the body. First and foremost. Only via an opening of the senses and an elimination of the mental barriers is it possible to truly experience things. Tunick's masses of people catch our eye and block our direct path, and his art thus becomes a reminder to sometimes let the body and not always the mind rule. The title of the show refers to where two of the works take place: Helsinki in the north and Chile southwest of here. Spencer Tunick's work has brought him to all seven continents. The biggest installation to date took place in Barcelona in 2003 where the artist managed to gather 7000 people. For information on Tunick's next installation please go to www.coff.es/en/spencertunick. Tunick is currently showing at The Havana Biennale and in the Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland. Exhibition: April 20 - May 27, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Fri 11am - 4pm, Sat 12am - 3pm MOGADISHNI Carl Jacobsens Vej 16, entrance 6, floor 3 DK-2500 Valby Telephone +45 32 54 35 35 Fax +45 32 54 35 45 Email mail@mogadishni.com www.mogadishni.com |
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