Dream Amsterdam

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Trouw and AD print almost the same Spencer Tunick photograph taken early on Sunday morning in Amsterdam. The photos both feature the spiral bands of a multi-storey car park with 2000 naked people standing facing the camera. De Telegraaf places a picture of naked cyclists leaning backwards and looking upwards on a bridge on the inside pages. Below it is a picture of the artist with a megaphone held to his mouth, "Thank you Amsterdam".












The pictures have been taken as part of the art festival, Dream Amsterdam, held for the first time last weekend. Each year, the festival asks a famous artist to create a piece of art in the city. Don't worry if you missed the spectacle, life-size photographs will be on view in the city centre throughout the summer.

Comment: I totally approve of the event. A friend in NL writes that yesterday's Dream Amsterdam got immense publicity. However, I don't like men and women reduced to just a mass of fleshcolour. I would tend to agree with my friend, "I prefer more the close ups of naked bodies and the beauty of a person in detail."

The car park (Lijnbaansgracht, next to old Police HQ) is very beautiful. Coincidentally, my friend and I had the same reaction: it has kind of NYC Guggenheim-feel to it.

Trouw story in Dutch.

In English and Dutch - Dream Amsterdam