Mark G and the Nude Expo

By Grace Bak

Following up with the Paint Nude Expo is another spectacular event presenting body art, in a thoroughly new and exciting format a Nude Fashion Show! A Nude fashion show may sound paradoxical at first, but the Nude Fashion Show promises to be a truly unique, one-of-a-kind event. Presenting models “wearing ”beautiful images of body art on a formal runway (with a theatrical spin)setting,it is a full fashion show: there will be music, poetry and spoken word, showcase of fashion items, food and after party - the whole nine yards.

"The visual art has been three-dimensional for a long time in the form of sculpture, but body art brings it into motion. With the addition of music and theater of a fashion show it is given life," says Mark G, the artist whose body art will be presented in the show.Mark G has body-painted for more than 10 years; he designs the body art just as any fashion designer might design an item of clothing, paints the models, photographs them –then he takes it a step further by creating paintings from these photographs,on wood with acrylic.

The first time ever for event of such kind, the fashion show is set in a theatrical backdrop of African landscape, according to its First theme of “Back to the Black.” Five different sets of scenes titled Purpose, The People, Spiritual Path, Maffat The Order, Back to theBlack, will be narrated by different hosts. Purpose will present five different Animals; five different African Masks will be presented in the People; Spiritual Path, the twelve Zodiac signs; Maffat The Order will present the hieroglyphics from ancient Kemet.Kemet is the ancient Egypt, the first civilization in the world.