The Glue Society has been given the honour of creating a project for the Art Gallery Of New South Wales and Tate London’s exhibition, Nude: art from the Tate collection.

At the heart of the show, which opened on November 5 in Sydney, is the world’s most famous image of erotic love, Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, The Kiss (1901-04).

The collective’s project involved recreating this work.

Among the exhibition’s 100 major representations of the nude, including paintings, sculptures and photographs by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud and Henri Matisse, this is the work from Tate’s collection that has never left Europe before.

By using 3D scanning and printing, The Glue Society has recreated the famous pose using seven couples from around Sydney.

The project set out to investigate the power of nudity in art – and the way the naked form forces us to re-evaluate our own bodies. The couples who participated reflected different ages, ethnicities, genders and sexualities – giving the classic sculptural work a contemporary relevance.

An artfilm and documentary were also produced and are featured at the Art Gallery of NSW – along with the 3D printed sculptures. They are being covered, too, by The Guardian’s Culture section.

Here is the documentary:

…and the artfilm:

The project is also presented on a website, where adventurous couples (is that you?) can nominate themselves to become the eighth couple to be scanned and printed for exhibition.

Credits

Creative Team:

Concept & Direction by The Glue Society

Produced by Will O’Rourke

Edited by The Glue Society

Post Production by The Glue Society Studios

3D Scanning & Printing by WYSIWYG

Art Gallery of NSW:

Director of Public Engagement: Jacquie Riddell

Head of Marketing & Communications: Natasha Henry

Marketing Partnerships Manager: Jessica Debrodt