Spencer Tunick

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.- On Sunday, August 6th, 2006, the internationally renowned installation artist, Spencer Tunick, with the support of museum kunst palast, created a three-dimensional body sculpture involving a hitherto unknow amount of nude people in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Spencer Tunick invited Volunteers to take part in this project. Every participant will obtain a limited edition photograph of the installation. More information on the time and place of the event will be sent to participants by e-mail nearer the time. The installation will take place in all weathers.

With this installation, Tunick is connecting with the Düsseldorf Quadriennale06 – the first Year of Art proclaimed by the city and henceforth to be held every four years. Patently with the body theme he is also resuming one that plays such an important part in the work of Caravaggio, to whom museum kunst palast is dedicating a concurrent exhibition of thirty high-calibre loans

Since 1992, this US-American artist has been recording naked people in public spaces. His spectacular projects, such as for the Saatchi Gallery in London or the São Paulo Biennale, have been celebrated successes. The project for Düsseldorf will be his first installation in Germany. Since 1994, Tunick has realised more than sixty-five ephemeral, site-specific installations. His piece for the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona was a collaboration with 6,000 men and women. With the aid of photography, he has recorded these demanding projects which can come about only with the participation of volunteers.