Catalonia Archaeological Museum “Appreciate it as if it were a work of art”
Collaborating with the Naturalism Club… View the Riace Bronze Statue Photo Exhibition
Visitor: “Recognize that our bodies are not objects of shame”
A museum in Barcelona, Spain, offered visitors a unique opportunity to take off their clothes and admire the artwork.
According to the U.S. CNN and Spanish English newspaper Euro Weekly News (EWN) on the 30th (local time), on the 28th, the Catalan Archaeological Museum collaborated with the Catalan Naturalism Club to hold a 90-minute tour where visitors could view the exhibition naked.
Visitors viewed a photo exhibition of the Riace bronze statue by Italian photographer Luigi Spina. The exhibition included photographs of two Greek bronze statues depicting naked warriors from the 5th century BC. The statues were discovered near Riace in Calabria, southern Italy, in 1972.
The guide guiding the visitors also gave explanations while taking off his clothes. Guide Edgard Mestre said, “I wanted to create a more diverse tour rather than a typical guided tour.” “I wanted visitors to feel exactly like the work they were seeing,” he added.
The museum’s website describes the tour as giving visitors “an opportunity to admire the work by posing for it, completely naked and surrounded by others.”
One visitor to this exhibition said, “It doesn’t feel much different from looking at the work with clothes on. “But through this opportunity, we can better understand that nudity has always existed and that our bodies should not be an object of shame for anyone.”
EWN reported that the message that the Catalan Archaeological Museum and the Catalan Naturist Club wanted to convey was to normalize naked bodies and accept all bodies that deviate from social norms.
Source: Donga
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