Video: Art pathologist. Shocking exhibitions of sculptures by Gunther von Hagens
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
And now you need to immediately remove children, pregnant women, the elderly and the faint of heart from the monitors. Also, this article is not recommended to be shown to those who have just eaten. Since it will focus on a kind of art, which is likely to be much more appropriate in an anatomical museum at some medical institute or medical school. German artist (actually a pathologist) Gunther von Hagens for many years has been working on a project called "Body world", showing the world dissected like animal carcasses, human bodies … All over the world, von Hagens is called "Doctor Death", because he works with real corpses, which are sent to him by morgues and hospitals, prisons and colonies, and also bequeathed to the families of fans of this terrible "creativity". In order to keep the bodies longer in their original, let's say, form, von Hagens invented the plastination technique (forced saturation of the anatomical specimen with active plastic), and in 1993 the whole Plastination Institute was founded.
Doctor Death convinces visitors to the exhibitions that a dead body is not scary at all, especially since less than half of the "living", organic material remains in its exhibits. The main part is made up of precisely plastic, so that the corpses are actually not corpses, but more mannequins, terrifyingly natural looking. However, sometimes the exhibits of von Hagens take such unnatural poses that it may seem as if this was what killed the person, turning him into a figure without skin, with twisted compositions, bared teeth and bulging eyes, and often with bare insides. Like the picture in the anatomy textbook.
You probably won’t be surprised that the strange "sculptor" was more than once tried to heal, judge, prohibit, picket, apply a lot of different sanctions against him. Especially after he once performed a public autopsy. But, as we can see, the museum of the author's dead sculptures is still alive, flourishing and replenishing with new copies. By the way, for some time now, dissected animal carcasses have joined human corpses.
The Doctor of Death also has an official website where you can see all the creepy exhibits that he has ever created and shown to the world.
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