MEXICO CITY.- The Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (Tlatelolco University Cultural Center) presents the exhibition City Dwellers by visual artist Spencer Tunick (b. New York, 1967), a show that gathers 30 images that are directly related or in a subtle way with some of the works in the Blaisten Collection.

The exhibition opened yesterday and will remain on view until September in the temporary exhibition hall of the Blaisten Collection.

Between the 15th and 18th of January of this year, Spencer Tunick worked in the production of these new works of art inspired on the Blaisten Collection that belongs to Tlatelolco University Cultural Center.

During four days he had several sessions with forty models, nonprofessional men and women, in an urban adventure that the artist undertook in different spaces in Mexico City. Each day, with ten participants, he crossed the city and shot images in different points of San Ángel, Copilco, Condesa, Azcapotzalco, Centro Histórico, Reforma and Tlatelolco, all of them symbolic spaces in the city.

Tunick selected thirty images that, on occasions, are directly related with some of the works of art in the Blaisten Collection, and in others they make a subtle reference to some of them. When the artist visited Mexico City in 2007 to work on the massive installation at the Zocalo, he visited the collection and, together with Andres Blaisten, planned the project that has been finally presented.

As is common in his works, in this series of thirty images, Tunick does not accentuate sexuality, but the body, the nude that bursts into the public space, and at the same it reconfigures it.

This is not the first time that Tunick shoots a single individual, at the beginning of his career, during the 90s in New York, he did it, and according to him, if he was not doing the massive installations that have characterized his work during the past years he would continue to do individual portraits. This is the first time in his career that he has created individual portraits based on a Modern art collection.