Everyday People, The Lowry
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Opening Times:
12/06/2010 - 26/09/2010
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Photography
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Everyday People
Spencer Tunick is an American installation artist best known for assembling large crowds of naked people and capturing them on film, and the Lowry is hosting his latest project, Everyday People. Over a single weekend in May 2010, Tunick visited eight locations across Manchester and Salford, where bus-loads of volunteers were asked to pose nude while Tunick snapped them. The resulting photographic and film work is now on display in the Lowry, along with the curators’ extensive documentation of the artist’s creative process – essays, interviews, videos, maps and photographs that illustrate how Spencer Tunick works. Tunick says he recognizes a particular bond between his own artworks and those of LS Lowry – he claims that ‘Lowry’s paintings depicting the mass of everyday people who contributed to the industrial machine of the 20th century also provide an interesting frame of reference in terms of the compositional possibilities of my installations.’
The exhibition is part of the Lowry’s tenth anniversary celebrations, and aims to celebrate the gallery’s close relationship with its audience. That audience wasn’t at all reticent about stripping off and getting involved – the curators report that over four times as many people applied to take part than they could actually use. Check it out – you might just spot your neighbours…
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Watch a video of Spencer Tunick here, filming in a Salford park on May 2nd, 2010. If the video does not appear watch here artist or show here on YouTube.
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Read more about the photo-shoot.