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neil curtis "XPS / COLORSPACED / PPS2 EXHIBITION" on 8^th of august 2006
july 2006

Though the pictures shown in this exhibition shows the human body in the nude, it isn't about nude photography, but rather, it is about Neil Curtis' body paintings. They are no ordinary body paintings either. Does Neil Curtis make a sculpture out of the body, or is is all about its transformation?

XPS: XPS stands for "experimental painting sessions" and it's all about experimenting. is everything allowed? according to the artist it's about experimenting with paint on the body and with the timescale: what happens when you paint a body with one color, and then overpaint it with another? how does it look like if you slowly paint a body with red paint, until no free space is left? fastly the borders between performance, documentation and nude photography blend into each other...

Colorspaced: the basis for this work are the countless black and white photographs of the artist. in a digital process, the picture looses its black layer, but comes back alive with a colorful new layer. This is reminiscent of the 60ies and 70ies hippie area. Neil Curtis comments with a smile on his face: "That was a cool time. Back then, people often had a much more relaxed relationship to nudity and their body".

PPS 2 – Public (Body) Painting Session: to see curtis' work on a photograph is one side of his art. but what would be more appropriate than exchanging the "dead surface" of a picture with the living one of a human body? to give back the three-dimensionallity to art, his second public painting session PPS2 will show how he turns a nude body into a painted one - just like on one of the countless subjects you can see in the exhibition!

the exhibition will be shown from 8^th of august to 8^th of september 2006
the performance takes place on
tuesday, 8^th of august 2006 at 7 pm.
place: BSA GALERIE
landesgerichtsstraße 16, 1010 wien
mo-thu 8-17h, fr 8-12h | tel 319 92 82

click here to see the bodypainting project "XPS RED"
click here to see the bodypainting project "XPS BLUE"
click here to see the first public painting session PPS1
click here to go to the website of the BSA-gallery

photos for the "XPS / COLORSPACED / PPS2" exhibition – for official use and promotion
	sujet of neil curtis' "XPS RED" project, which is also the basis for the flyer to the exhibition (model: pierre). neil curtis XPS RED 1152x1535 pixel RGB / 392 kb
	flyer of the exhibition 800x1133 pixel RGB / 284 kb
	note: the pictures are copyright 2006 by neil curtis and are only intended for press-work. please contact me if you want to use the picture(s) in your publication!