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 Vallarta Living | Art Talk | April 2007 
Mexico Might Ban Nudes From Pyramids
 Reuters
 | | The National Autonomy University of Mexico (UNAM) was one of the first institutions that believed in his project and has launched a website for people who are interested in signing up to participate in the project - click HERE. |
Mexico is unlikely to allow US artist Spencer Tunick stage a nude photo shoot at its famous Teotihuacan pyramids, citing possible damage to the ancient site.
Tunick has asked Mexican archaeological authorities for permission to photograph masses of naked people at Teotihuacan, Mexico's oldest major ruins, on May 6.
"The application has been filed and the National Anthropology and History Institute is evaluating it, but it looks like they won't let him. It's not the last word but they have told me it will be rejected," Alejandro Sarabia, who runs the Teotihuacan site, told Reuters on Monday.
Tunick has caused controversy by staging nude photo shoots in cities from Dusseldorf to Caracas. Organizers say the Mexico City event might top his record of 7000 naked people photographed in Barcelona in 2003.
Teotihuacan, which housed some 200,000 inhabitants at the height of its power around 500 AD, is a series of pyramids and buildings set around a central boulevard and would provide Tunick one of his most monumental backgrounds.
Only 56 km northeast of Mexico City, participants could be bussed to Teotihuacan quickly from the capital.
The Aztecs, who flourished many centuries after Teotihuacan's mysterious collapse, gave the city its current name, meaning "the place where gods are made."
Mexico is highly protective of its archaeological sites and in October rescinded an offer to let Yahoo Inc. project into space a "time capsule" from Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun, fearing damage.
A spokesperson for Tunick's photography project would not comment on the likely rejection but promised the event would go on, either at Teotihuacan or in Mexico City itself.
For more photos from artist Spencer Tunick click HERE. |
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