While in India, Poonam Pandeys, Sunny Leonas and Sherlin Chopras appear from out of the blue, all naked and steamy, using their breasts and thighs to promote cricket, green movements and what not, away in London, artists are busy showing bath scenes of voluptuous women, all live and no videos nor images.
So, those who are in the city on Themes for Olympics, here is a chance to take a peep through a keyhole of a bathroom, where those utterly butterly beauties, soaping in the bathtub, cleaning her face at the mirror, all completely nude!
I am not joking, buddy! The National Gallery, home of rarefied Old Masters and temple to long-dead artists, has inside its revered galleries the latest work by the artist Mark Wallinger - an exhibition Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. It showcases three Titians depicting the myth of Diana and Actaeon alongside new works made in response to them by three British artists Wallinger, Chris Ofili and Conrad Shawcross.
Once you enter the room that is pitch-dark and gropes your way around, you come across a window. The glass is opaque, but a corner of it is broken, and you place your eye against it. You can now see into a bathroom. And OMG, there is this irresistible woman, without even a bit of cloth, pampering her silky flesh all around! As you move around the outside of the room, you find other apertures: you stoop down to look through a keyhole, or peer through a chink in Venetian blinds. An unforgettable experience that makes visitor into a voyeur, a peeping tom!
"The myth of Diana and Actaeon is the ultimate fable about voyeurism," Wallinger was quoted as saying. "There is an extraordinary savagery with which Actaeon is dispatched and given a deadly metamorphosis. My purpose was to make that contemporary in the context of Titian and the National Gallery. This building, after all, is all about the history of the male gaze and the female nude."
All the best, you lucky guys, I badly miss this, though!
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