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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Tunick, Spencer
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2000 | | Class: | Book | | Status: | Official | | Size: | 8 X 8 |
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New York, I-20 Gallery, 2000. Stiff photo-pictorial front- and backwrapper, 20,3 x 20,3 cms., (16) pp. stapled, 10 color plates.
November 9 - December 16, 2000
Reaction Zone will be his first show at I-20 since 1998. This show will comprise an installation of recent images taken in New York, Los Angeles, and the cities of Basel and Vienna. Tunick's performances encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers; and his photographs are records of these events. Without their clothing the individuals are like vessels. Most often grouped together and lying prone, the bodies are organisms that extend into and upon the landscape like a new substance. These grouped masses - which do not underscore sexuality - become abstract narratives that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces. Spencer Tunick's body of work may come to help define or at least clarify the social, political and legal issues surrounding art in the public sphere. Since 1994 Tunick has tried to work in New York without interference or imprisonment. After his fifth arrest in April 1999, the artist filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against New York City. In May 2000 Tunick won this First Amendment case in the Second U.S. District Court. On June 3, in response to the city's appeal made to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the court at large, the United States Supreme Court refused to rule in favor of the city, allowing the artist to organize his work on New York City streets.
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