Just weeks before the launch of the European Championship football tournament, about 1,800 volunteers gathered at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday, May 11, to shed their clothing for American photographer Spencer Tunick.  SH doesn’t have Ernst Happel in its vast stadium database yet, so check it out on Wikipedia in the meantime.

The stadium will play host to seven European Championship games, including the final. The tournament kicks off on June 7 in Basel, Switzerland.  And on Sunday, Tunick also had an artistic tie in to the games: He had nude models posé with 1,000 soccer balls. Nice touch.

Considering each participant recieved free tickets to the tournament, I’m surprised there were only 1,800 shameless Viennese crazies.

Sources:

• http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24213
• http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,552800,00.html

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