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"Undaunted Nudity"
Collective Art Show
Welcome to "Undaunted Nudity" Online Collective Art Show!
For almost all known human existence, our progenitors lived in nudity. But at what point it became something shameful and inappropriate.
The obligatory concealment of naked barbarians in the name of civilized western modesty led to a sense of body shame, which at the time was an instrument of control over indigenous peoples, but which prevailed for many years until the 21st century.
Nudity wasn't always a taboo in the Western world. In Greece, for example, the body was considered something very inspiring. Later, Romans also socialized nudity in their Roman baths and nude bodies were a part of pagan ceremonies in pre-Christian Europe. Early Christianity banned pagans' liberal attitude to the naked body. "Flesh" started to be seen as an evil temptation leading to sin, especially if it was a woman. Absurdity was gained in the 19th Century when even a small piece of the naked body could be considered as inconsistent with society. And sex was allowed only for procreation, not pleasure.
But the dark times are over and we invite you to celebrate "Undaunted Nudity" as the way to liberate the nakedness from taboos and prejudice. Nudity began to return in Western World as a body acceptance movement that offered nudity as an antidote to the repressive extremes of Puritan and Victorian restraints. And CU46 Project is the platform where artists working with the subject of the naked body can have their voice.
Artists presented:
Beata Konarska, Poland
Izosceles, the United States
Kapil Mani Dixit, Nepal
Marta Panzacchi, Italy
Ruth Bircham, UK
Sofia Zuluaga, Colombia (CU46 Project resident artist)
Tamás Kacsák, Hungary
Varvara Esmenova, Russia (CU46 Project resident artist)
For almost all known human existence, our progenitors lived in nudity. But at what point it became something shameful and inappropriate.
The obligatory concealment of naked barbarians in the name of civilized western modesty led to a sense of body shame, which at the time was an instrument of control over indigenous peoples, but which prevailed for many years until the 21st century.
Nudity wasn't always a taboo in the Western world. In Greece, for example, the body was considered something very inspiring. Later, Romans also socialized nudity in their Roman baths and nude bodies were a part of pagan ceremonies in pre-Christian Europe. Early Christianity banned pagans' liberal attitude to the naked body. "Flesh" started to be seen as an evil temptation leading to sin, especially if it was a woman. Absurdity was gained in the 19th Century when even a small piece of the naked body could be considered as inconsistent with society. And sex was allowed only for procreation, not pleasure.
But the dark times are over and we invite you to celebrate "Undaunted Nudity" as the way to liberate the nakedness from taboos and prejudice. Nudity began to return in Western World as a body acceptance movement that offered nudity as an antidote to the repressive extremes of Puritan and Victorian restraints. And CU46 Project is the platform where artists working with the subject of the naked body can have their voice.
Artists presented:
Beata Konarska, Poland
Izosceles, the United States
Kapil Mani Dixit, Nepal
Marta Panzacchi, Italy
Ruth Bircham, UK
Sofia Zuluaga, Colombia (CU46 Project resident artist)
Tamás Kacsák, Hungary
Varvara Esmenova, Russia (CU46 Project resident artist)
Marta Panzacchi, Italy
Marta Panzacchi's artistic research explores the meaning of being a woman today, how culture has changed the essence of the contradictory reality of the human being, a reality that in artist's opinion we try to hide and deny.
Her goal is to create, through art, an empathetic connection with the viewer through a sensitive and profound but at the same time strong and pungent language; in the subjects represented in her art Panzacchi is not looking for harmonious beauty, but conflict and intensity; she wants to create a dialogue that defies the gaze and leads to reflection.
Her goal is to create, through art, an empathetic connection with the viewer through a sensitive and profound but at the same time strong and pungent language; in the subjects represented in her art Panzacchi is not looking for harmonious beauty, but conflict and intensity; she wants to create a dialogue that defies the gaze and leads to reflection.
The portrait of Medusa encourages to face the problem with faith and trust in human's life.
The series is made so that the observer's attention gets immediately caught with the aim to create an emotional involvement and so to connect the observer directly to the painting.
The eyes at her breast are her answer to the obsession given to the female body; her eyes are the defense arms against the extremely strict judgement that women has to defend themselves from and that tend to make them feel inappropriate.
To underline the quantity of strength and sacrifice required to adapt to changes. The given message is positive and trustful, and meant to protect ourselves through love and courage, emotions that, once owned, can bring us towards freedom.
The series is made so that the observer's attention gets immediately caught with the aim to create an emotional involvement and so to connect the observer directly to the painting.
The eyes at her breast are her answer to the obsession given to the female body; her eyes are the defense arms against the extremely strict judgement that women has to defend themselves from and that tend to make them feel inappropriate.
To underline the quantity of strength and sacrifice required to adapt to changes. The given message is positive and trustful, and meant to protect ourselves through love and courage, emotions that, once owned, can bring us towards freedom.
Ruth Bircham, UK
Bircham's erotic art themes are about the embrace of self with all its natural beauty and state to encourage people to love their NAKED bodies. In it's real and extreme form. Whether one has small breasts or large breasts, a small penis or a large penis, etc. Many people go under the knife due to media representations of what the body should look like. Making people take desperate measures to try and change what they have. The series shows no form but the beautiful nude in art presented as a landscape of colours and texture of the body.
Izosceles, US
With a love for cartoons and fun imagery, Izosceles is covered their adoration for artistic expression at a young age.Their works are colorful in nature, however some have deeper tones underneath the playful, digestible surface. Growing up on cartoons as a child is what inspires their bold lines and imaginative colors that pull you in, and the visual composition and subject matter are what make you stay.
"Sexuality is such a natural occurrence, yet it is censored and hushed, and even considered to be taboo. We all own sexuality and we all have the power to exude it. Art is an expressive medium that allows individuals to express themselves. Nudity had run rampant throughout artists' work since the beginning of time, as it is reflective of life. Now, nudity shown in work today can considerably be tricky, especially if shared via social media, publication, and even exhibiting the works on the walls of galleries. The work I produce may be deemed fun and colorful, but it comes from wanting to express natural-ness and life, and even though they come from an innocent place, a lot of the times my works cannot seem to get a chance to shine."
Izosceles.
"Sexuality is such a natural occurrence, yet it is censored and hushed, and even considered to be taboo. We all own sexuality and we all have the power to exude it. Art is an expressive medium that allows individuals to express themselves. Nudity had run rampant throughout artists' work since the beginning of time, as it is reflective of life. Now, nudity shown in work today can considerably be tricky, especially if shared via social media, publication, and even exhibiting the works on the walls of galleries. The work I produce may be deemed fun and colorful, but it comes from wanting to express natural-ness and life, and even though they come from an innocent place, a lot of the times my works cannot seem to get a chance to shine."
Izosceles.
Varvara Esmenova, Russia
Varvara Esmenovacreates her art pieces in mixed technique of etching and author's print. With the series "Obscurum per Obscurius" she explores the Russian metamorphosis through a female body.
"I tried to find some balance. Naked female nature served as a tool thanks to which, it seems to me, I managed to connect everything together. To achieve harmony. I was always interested in working with the human body. Neither landscapes nor portraits have ever particularly attracted me."
Varvara Esmenova
"I tried to find some balance. Naked female nature served as a tool thanks to which, it seems to me, I managed to connect everything together. To achieve harmony. I was always interested in working with the human body. Neither landscapes nor portraits have ever particularly attracted me."
Varvara Esmenova
Tamás Kacsák , Hungary
Kacsák's artworks reflect on real-life events, while creating new parallelisms and associations. Ones that address events that affect people, whether want it or not. Sometimes they are touching or inspiring, at other times negative and menacing.
"People overdo everything. They overeat, overdress, over network themselves. We usually blame the world for our exaggerations, our voracity defeated us long time ago. The mass production, the mass consumption has a self-destructive consequence. Due to the explosive spread of internet and the mass media we have to process and understand myriad information simultaneously. Our social communication habits have been transformed, we spend more and more time in virtual reality, where we can develop and manage several personalities, our everyday activities are determined by smartphones. Nowadays almost everybody is aware of the concept of the selfies. It is not only current among the young people but is well-known by more and more adults and celebrities. Why is it so important for us to document ourselves? Probably it is self-justification or trying of our self-confidence, searching for popularity or a sort of ego-expression? Social being or public solitude?"
Tamás Kacsák
"People overdo everything. They overeat, overdress, over network themselves. We usually blame the world for our exaggerations, our voracity defeated us long time ago. The mass production, the mass consumption has a self-destructive consequence. Due to the explosive spread of internet and the mass media we have to process and understand myriad information simultaneously. Our social communication habits have been transformed, we spend more and more time in virtual reality, where we can develop and manage several personalities, our everyday activities are determined by smartphones. Nowadays almost everybody is aware of the concept of the selfies. It is not only current among the young people but is well-known by more and more adults and celebrities. Why is it so important for us to document ourselves? Probably it is self-justification or trying of our self-confidence, searching for popularity or a sort of ego-expression? Social being or public solitude?"
Tamás Kacsák
Sofía Zuluaga, Colombia
Her themes of exploration revolve around a sense of inciting rebellion against our social conditioning; the narratives determining who and what each individual is entitled to be.
She utilizes vibrant colors amidst difficult themes, heightening the paradox of it all. In this fashion, Sofia creates tension in the spectator, with the sole purpose of questioning and coming to terms with their identity.
She utilizes vibrant colors amidst difficult themes, heightening the paradox of it all. In this fashion, Sofia creates tension in the spectator, with the sole purpose of questioning and coming to terms with their identity.
Kapil Mani Dixit, Nepal
Kapil Mani Dixit introduces nude figurative art in Nepal where the word 'nude' is still a taboo. He is known for his nude figurative art – the first of its kind at his motherland.
In his latest series "Untold Stories" Kapil aimed to bring out human's inner feelings, suppression, and stories of motivation, power, and freedom. Each painting tells an individual story of life. According to the artist's opinion, anyone can relate the emotions and feelings shown in his art pieces to their personal lives.
Kapil used minimal color pallets such as white, black, yellow, red, and recycled brown paper. This choice symbolizes the limitations of the social acceptance of the figurative artwork in Nepal. Though figurative art is yet to be accepted as a way of artistic expression in his country, he is hopeful that people will eventually understand its importance as a creative form of art like any other art medium.
In his latest series "Untold Stories" Kapil aimed to bring out human's inner feelings, suppression, and stories of motivation, power, and freedom. Each painting tells an individual story of life. According to the artist's opinion, anyone can relate the emotions and feelings shown in his art pieces to their personal lives.
Kapil used minimal color pallets such as white, black, yellow, red, and recycled brown paper. This choice symbolizes the limitations of the social acceptance of the figurative artwork in Nepal. Though figurative art is yet to be accepted as a way of artistic expression in his country, he is hopeful that people will eventually understand its importance as a creative form of art like any other art medium.
Beata Konarska, Poland
"Mea vulva" rhymes in a way with the Latin "mea culpa" (my fault, guilt) - the public confession of sins during the holy mass. Koarska's project among others was conceived with a question about the necessity to cover and uncover the female body. Both activities most frequently bear a character of command within the culture. They are the tools of power. The aftermath of accusation.
Vagina is revealed to the public in her paintings. It is being watched, without having to be voyered. Most often it is presented as an object. As a work of art, placed in an open space such as an object in a museum or gallery. And it has an audience that is looking and is not ashamed. The vagina is exposed here as something that is separate from the body. It becomes an autonomous object.
But it is not a prop. Not a phantom of a vagina. It is its revealing and even epiphany. It appears as an object, which is to be looked at. It proudly presents itself before the audience. On the wall of the gallery, in a dream, and in a natural landscape.
Who was it created by and why? What is its function? What are the tasks to be performed by it?
Paralleled to a work of art, in a sense it becomes one itself. However, it also represents some mystical epiphany, conveying mystical initiation. Perhaps it is an artistic object and perhaps a miracle? Sanctified through art, it becomes a sanctity itself?
Vagina is revealed to the public in her paintings. It is being watched, without having to be voyered. Most often it is presented as an object. As a work of art, placed in an open space such as an object in a museum or gallery. And it has an audience that is looking and is not ashamed. The vagina is exposed here as something that is separate from the body. It becomes an autonomous object.
But it is not a prop. Not a phantom of a vagina. It is its revealing and even epiphany. It appears as an object, which is to be looked at. It proudly presents itself before the audience. On the wall of the gallery, in a dream, and in a natural landscape.
Who was it created by and why? What is its function? What are the tasks to be performed by it?
Paralleled to a work of art, in a sense it becomes one itself. However, it also represents some mystical epiphany, conveying mystical initiation. Perhaps it is an artistic object and perhaps a miracle? Sanctified through art, it becomes a sanctity itself?
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