Woolies hits a bum note with famous photographer
What harm could 10,000 nude Victorians on a supermarket roof do? Keep people from parking their cars at 9am in the morning it seems.
Renowned photographer Spencer Tunick had earmarked the top of Woolies supermarket in Prahan for his 7 July nude photoshoot but the supermarket giant wasn’t having any of his bare-faced cheek!
While the supermarket giant said, “The request for the photo was for the weekend, which is the busiest time of the week for shopping in our stores, and as such we must ensure customers have convenient access to our store when we are open.” However, locals don’t agree, claiming that a maximum of four cars use the space at that time in the morning.
Spencer Tunick is no stranger to Melbourne, photographing nudes lining the banks of the Yarra River. Sydney Opera House and Grand Central Station have also had the photographer’s stripped-down treatment.
If you think it’s just a bit of fun and the supermarket should reconsider its stance, you can sign the petition.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT BUT SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY PAID GOOD MONEY FOR ALL THIS SO CALLED "ART"!!
Artist's Shit ("Merda d'artista") is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans filled with feces, each weighing 30 grams and measuring 4.8x6.5cm, with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating:
Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961
At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production.
A tin was sold for €124,000 at Sotheby's onMay 23, 2007; in October 2008, tin 083 was offered for sale at Sotheby's with an estimate of £50-70,000. It sold for £97,250. The cans were originally valued according to their equivalent weight in gold — $37 each in 1961 — with the price fluctuating according to the market.
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