I am happy and excited about having a significant art project in our city,” he said. “The city overlooks the Dead Sea,” he said, according to a statement, “Arad is a pluralistic city. “Spencer has a natural love for and connection to the land, and when we showed him the condition and situation in the Dead Sea he was ready to return and help raise awareness while creating a new work that does just that,” he tells NoCamels.įruchter and Tunick were also joined by Nisan Ben-Hamo, the mayor of Arad, and Sharon Neuman and Iftah Hayner, the architects designing the museum.īen-Hamo was asked whether Arad was a suitable location for a Dead Sea Museum. When asked how Fruchter was able to convince Tunick to come back to Israel for a Dead Sea photoshoot after 10 years, the entrepreneur said it “wasn’t hard to do.” An aerial perspective of Spencer Tunick’s Naked Sea project at the Dead Sea. Fruchter set out to build a Dead Sea Museum in Arad in 2019 as part of a quest to both preserve the area and give back to a city that had made an impact on him since it was his home in a World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) program in 1997. I have remained deeply connected and concerned about the Dead Sea and am hoping to help make sure it remains,” Tunick said in a statement.Īt a press conference in Jerusalem last week, Tunick said he was honored to be in Israel for the third time, to make art that brings attention to the city of Arad, and “to be in the only place in the Middle East where he can do his art.”Īri Leon Fruchter, a US-born social entrepreneur who first brought Tunick to Israel, spoke alongside the photographer at the press conference. Yet, today, the setting of my 2011 works is entirely unrecognizable. The people in this installation moved on, their bodies and minds 10 years older, with the one constant being the landscape- the minerals, the rocks and sea. “Everything you see in my 2011 photographs is gone. More than 4,000 sinkholes have been identified on the Dead Sea’s western shores. Sea levels have since declined drastically leaving the region unrecognizable. The photo was a reaction to the closure of Mineral Beach which is no longer accessible due to sinkholes. The exhibit will culminate with work from a carefully photographed 2016 installation at the secret Metzoke Dragot (Dragot Cliffs) beach. Spencer Tunick put together a carefully photographed shoot, which took place at the Metzokot Dragot in 2016. The artist’s showcase event will also include individual portraits shot from across the Dead Sea, as well as never-before-seen photography of a group of 30 women who participated in a nude photoshoot from the Ein Gedi and Ein Bokek Waterfalls. See more of Tunick’s work on his website. Recently he hold an installation with 100 naked women to protest against Donald Trump in Cleveland. Clive Lipchin.Įver since 1994, Tunick has been using nudity and photography to create political art. The window of opportunity is narrow and will soon be closed” explained the director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management Dr. “The Dead Sea we once knew doesn’t exist anymore. Models were requested to act out-of-place, “in a Magritte-like way”, and interact with the sinkholes of the Dead Sea. Tunick, who got known for his 2011 mass art installation called “Naked Sea” featuring 1200 naked Israelis floating in the salty waters, created a nude photo series with 15 models in the Dead Sea. Worried about the irreversible damage, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies invited Tunick to return to the Dead Sea and grab attention of the international public and government. The decline on its levels is causing the proliferation of underground voids known as sinkholes that might end up killing the sea. In recent years, Dead Sea’s water levels have been dropping off about 1.2 meters per year. Last month, Jewish-American artist Spencer Tunick went back to Israel to visit the Dead Sea and raise awareness of the rapid evaporation of its waters. The salt lake that’s known for its 33% salt density has been living up to its name.
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