AKT NACKT KUSS

Yesterday, Red Baron was invited to a Midissage named Act Nude Kiss at Freiburg’s Museum für Neue Kunst.

Until The Place Is Buzzing. With this slogan, the friends association of the Museum für Neue Kunst celebrates its 30th anniversary from April 7 to September 10 with short exhibitions and workshops.
As part of a light, film, and space production by Christina Ohlmer, the performance and live nude drawing was called Midissage. The word is formed with French midi, i.e., high noon meaning here the middle of the exhibition period. Vernissage would have been inappropriate. Varnish the nude models?

Erotic curves 1 (©Christina Ohlmer)

Erotic curves 2 (©Christina Ohlmer)

Christiana was inspired by a video she made at the Rodin Museum in Paris, tracing the erotic curves of the sculpture The Kiss impressively in white marble. Try to do this with the bronze cast now on display at the Museum for Contemporary Art.

The performance proper started with a nude model entering the room, carrying a drawing pad, sitting down, and starting to sketch. A few minutes later, a young woman entered, equipped with painting utensils, sat down, and began to paint the model.

Another young woman joined, dressed in a cape. She and the nude posed in front of the artist, who was trying hard to get the moving scene on her drawing pad.

A young man also equipped with his drawing material entered sat down, and started to paint the two models too.

©female artist 1

©male artist 1

Then the other model dropped her cape, and the two nudes posed together such that the two painters still sitting on the floor could no longer follow the rapidly following postures.

©female artist 1

©male artist 1

Desperate, they started portraying each other as the only subjects at rest.

Eventually, the two nude models began to interfere with the efforts of the two artists putting their hands on or sitting on the half-finished paintings.

The two painters had enough. They stood up and, in turn, started to perform like the two models. In the end, all four were moving and raising their hands. Finally, they attached the half-finished paintings to the wall.

The end: Note the "fallen" cape

What I found most impressive was: The almost static scene initially evolved slowly but then more rapidly into a dynamic performance.

Artists and officials in the discussion

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