Interlaced Bodies
Bodies twisted, stacked and entangled into a single form, for struggle, suffering, desire or collective joy.
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Bodies twisted together make a single, restless form, and artists have used the tangle for struggle, suffering, desire and collective joy. The ancient marble Laocoön and His Sons, unearthed in Rome in 1506, binds a priest and two boys in the coils of sea serpents, and Michelangelo was among the first to see it. He had already packed a relief with grappling nudes in the Battle of the Centaurs (c. 1492), and Giambologna's Abduction of a Sabine Woman (1579–83) spirals three figures upwards so no single view is complete.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux clustered the starving Ugolino and His Sons (1865–67) into one knot of despair. Joan Semmel's paintings of the 1970s show her own body and a lover's seen close and tightly cropped, and Ren Hang photographed friends stacked and knotted in playful, deadpan compositions. Spencer Tunick arranges hundreds of nude volunteers into masses across streets and landscapes.
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