The spectrum of artistic creativity has an extremely long and winding plane that seems to be warping in and out of consciousness every minute. Does that even make sense?
An artist by the name of Gunther von Hagen has created a controversial form of art that has ruffled a lot of the tight wads feathers. His art is a display of partially dissected corpses in varying poses, mostly sporting positions. Von Hagen’s exhibit will be arriving in my city, Calgary, in May 2010 at the Science Center.
I am utterly fascinated by such a brilliant way to expose the bleak reality of the human body’s inevitable demise. Not only is von Hagen unearthing the complex beauty of our biological inner workings, his art reflects a notion that the conventional world seems to cast as arrogant: Our bodies do not hold any type of significant substance, our physical selves are ultimately flesh and bone which will whittle away into the nothingness of our world. He is elevating the concept of self identity by illustrating the misappropriation of value that is placed onto our physical bodies.
Am I going out on a far out limb here? Is von Hagen taking his anatomist background and simply experimenting with art? Maybe… all I know is the radical fusion he is creating sure made my mind go to a tea party with Charles Darwin and Jean-Paul Sartre.
I heard about this - i'm not sure how i feel, the only thing i am wondering is if these people signed up for this prior to death. I realize people donate their body to science, but did they donate their body to art?
ReplyDeleteIf it was donated for that purpose i have less qualms, but if it was taken from somewhere like the sciences, and used for art, i disagree on mere human rights grounds.
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All the human plastinates are from people who donated their bodies for plastination via a body donation program.
ReplyDeleteYah, the purpose of the exhibit is said to educate the public about the human body, leading to better health awareness. He's doing it through a controversial form, however, I don't really see how it’s infringing on human rights you know? Maybe if he was grave robbin’ haha!
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ReplyDeleteYeah i did some research and found that it was donated for that reason. That was all i was wondering. It looks interesting!
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