Art?

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:16 pm

WARSAW (Reuters) - Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-produce his art, local officials said Monday.

Von Hagens, whose exhibitions made out of human and animal remains have attracted millions of visitors around the world, has already bought land and industrial buildings in the western Polish town of Sieniawa Zarska, near the German border.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... corpses_dc

Ye? or Nay?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:20 pm

i have seen this exhibit, it is bizarre but also strangely fascinating. ...Poland seems an ironic choice.

busybee · Post by **busybee** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:39 am

Sheryl wrote: WARSAW (Reuters) - Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-produce his art, local officials said Monday.

Von Hagens, whose exhibitions made out of human and animal remains have attracted millions of visitors around the world, has already bought land and industrial buildings in the western Polish town of Sieniawa Zarska, near the German border.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... corpses_dc

Ye? or Nay?

Is this legal - using human and animal remains? hmmmmm all a bit too wierd for my liking.

chicagolosina · Post by **chicagolosina** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:06 am

Interesting and even educational...but art? nah

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:15 pm

Umm...Gross. Especially considering one of the displays is a pregnant woman. Eeewwww.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:24 pm

So if he builds a factory for 'mass production' of this art, would you purchase a piece for your personnel collection?

Would you donate your body to him upon death to be used in his art?

http://www.koerperwelten.de/en/pages/gu ... hagens.asp

Here's his website by the way.

Ok to answer some of my own questions. I find it both sick in nature, but strangly facinated too. I don't know if I would call it art, because in one way his work could be benificial to educators and then again abused others.

ComfortablyNumb · Post by **ComfortablyNumb** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:57 am

Yes I've seen that exhibition. More like medical specimens than art.

Are morticians and taxidermists artists?