“For me, the nude body is like raw material. Another artist might use oil or clay. I love the fact that, en masse, it can be turned into an infinite number of shape abstractions, while the setting I choose . . . rural, urban, indoors or out . . . is like a canvas.” (Spencer Tunick)

Spencer Tunick’s project entitled The Beautiful Game was realized on May 11, 2008, at the EURO Final stadium with the help of 1,840 volunteers from 31 countries and was recorded photographically and on film. The photos at the Ernst Happel Stadium were presented in the KÖR showcase. In the run-up to the EURO 08, Tunick thus sent out an artistic message in the interaction between human bodies and the stadium as a public space.

Spencer Tunick has documented nude humans in the public sphere in photos and videos. All actors are unpaid volunteers, who only receive a signed photograph in return for their participation. The works have become ever more complex and organizationally intensive. Tunick now arranges up to several thousand people into frequently spectacular installations of bodies in buildings, on public places and streets, in parks or natural sceneries.

The artist describes participants in his projects as “living sculptures” or “body landscapes” and has repeatedly created a furor with his public assemblages of naked humans over the years, his objective being to counterpoint the rigid aesthetic of big-city structures with sculptural arrangements of human bodies.