Visitors Are Required To Take Off Clothes At Art Exhibition
Usually, when attending an art exhibition, visitors often dress up. However, for the first time, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra requires visitors to take off their clothes while enjoying the artwork of popular artist James Turrell. A unique exhibition held by the NGA features the works of the famous artist James Turrell: A Retrospective, which explore his love of the light and landscape.
This event provides an opportunity for visitors to enjoy the artwork without using clothes. Hopefully, the unique approach of this kind will be able to eliminate the boundary between the work of the artist and visitors. Contemporary artist from Melbourne Stuart Ringholt participates in collaboration with the NGA for organizing the exhibition. Ringholt said nudity will be able to enhance the visitor’s perception of depth artwork from James Turrell.
The work of James Turrell is focused on light, perception, sun, moon and heavenly-pitched things. Turrell has the idea that the skin would be very charming if bathed in the form of vitamin D that seems to fit all. The skin cannot be bathed in light, which is needed in the work of James Turrell, if visitors still wear clothes. It makes sense that visitors should be better to undress.
In his recent visit to Canberra, Turrell advised the NGA to allow visitors to be naked when interacting with his artwork creations, as he had done in his art exhibition in Japan. The NGA will host this naked exhibition on April 1st, 2015, and totally, 150 people have expressed their willingness to take off the clothes for enjoying the work of James Turrell.
The museum will be closed to the public, except for those who have already booked tickets to witness this event. Thus, this exhibition will be opened only for the nudists and people who are ready to take off their clothes. Some media have been invited to cover this event, but they can choose to take off clothes or not.
