Video: "Paint Instead of Clothes" - Body Art by Neil Curtis
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Replace Clothes with Paint is not only the name of a series of performances by Neil Curtis, but also the motto of his work as a whole. The artist explores the human body, painting it, thanks to which he takes the art of body art to a new level.
An Austrian artist paints the model's body, completely painting over all parts of her skin. In one session, Curtis applies on the "canvas" from two to ten layers of different colors.
In one of his interviews, Curtis claims that this kind of experimental art was inspired by the activities of Vienna Actionism, a radical and provocative movement by a group of Austrian artists who worked in the 1960s. Basically, the work of Viennese actionists consisted of a number of performances, distinguished by their destructiveness and scenes of violence using a naked body, blood, excrement and animal carcasses. Like this group of Austrian artists, Neil Curtis is trying to overthrow comfortism with his art: "free people from their clothes", which limits their lives. "This is a symbolic transition," says the artist, "from the world in which we live, built on social rules, into the" world of art ", the abstract world of painted naked human bodies."
“There is an opinion that my work is intended mainly for homosexuals. I would not say that I like this opinion. I want my work to be appreciated by all people who like art related to the human body. On the other hand, my work helps some viewers to overcome the fear of nudity and completely naked male body. Once, when I was holding an exhibition, a heterosexual visitor was staring at the model's painted butt for several minutes. Later he came up to me and said that he had never seen a man's butt so close in his life, and now he believes that "body art is great!" Religion often tells us that a naked body is bad and you should be ashamed of it. But I believe that nudity should be allowed in art."
“The most intimate area is the face,” says Curtis, “if you paint it too, then the whole body of the model becomes something unusual, as if there is a certain amount of magic here. Therefore, for me this process is compared to the transformation of a person into some completely different creature."
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