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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Spot the naked Wagnerian

Seriously, anyone that makes a comment about "Where's Wally/Waldo" is out of here.

Spencer Tunick’s latest art installation, “The Ring" has just been enacted in Munich. Consisting of over 1000 nude volunteers (some painted red, some silver) it celebrated the beginning of the Munich Opera Festival. It was, apparently, a recreation of various scenes from the Ring Cycle. Tunick said of the "instillation":

“I'm very interested in the history of the city, the close links with Richard Wagner's work, but also the dark chapters of the city's history and the building structures from the Nazi era,”