Belgium: 800 men and women take part in naked pillow fight for art project

Belgium: 800 men and women take part in naked pillow fight for art project

Mtoday news / Mail

Belgium, July 10: The latest nude photo installation by daring U.S. artist Spencer Tunick, has seen 800 volunteers shed their clothes in the name of art.

The piece, entitled ’Sleeping Beauties’ took place in the grounds of Gaasbeek’s Castle in Belgium, 6 miles south of the capital Brussels.

Tunick specialises in nude outdoor photography, and has been taking pictures in unusual locations since he began in 1986, taking pictures of nudes outside Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, South London.





Naked volunteers battle with pillows as they pose for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick in front of the Gaasbeek’s Castle.

The installation is entitled "Sleeping Beauties".

He began documenting live nudes in public locations seriously in 1995, beginning in his native New York through video and photographs.

Gaasbeek’s Castle is situated just outside the Begium capital of Brussels.

Since then he has built a large portfolio of work all over the world.  His work in the UK includes taking photographs of 500 nude participants outside Selfridges department store in London in 2003, 700 nudes revellers at the Big Chill music festival in Herefordshire in 2007 and shooting 1,700 nudes on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in 2005

This is the latest project from nude photo installation artist Spencer Tunick.

His project have grown increasingly more ambitious as time has gone on, with his largest ever project seeing 18,000 people posing for him in Mexico City’s principal square, called the Zocalo.

800 people posed for the early morning nude photo installation titled "Sleeping Beauties".

All the models are unpaid volunteers who receive a limited edition photo as compensation.