WALTER
VAN BEIRENDONCK: "I have always been been
preoccupied with it, with nudidity. With what you can get away with and
what you can't. I wanted somehow to show a penis, a naked male, but I never
did because I couldn't find a way to do it. I didn't just want to shock
people. "I finally managed to do it by putting a print of a penis on
a pair of trousers which was worn in the show as a piece of trompe I'œil.
At first sight it seemed completely real. The audience seemed to think so
too, until the model passed them. Then they felt relieved - it was only
a print. On that occasion I managed to combine two things, the shock of
nudity and the intellectual quality of an image." |