{"id":240047,"date":"2012-11-18T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/death-a-self-portrait-the-wellcome-collection-through-february-24-2013\/"},"modified":"2012-11-18T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T07:41:40","slug":"death-a-self-portrait-the-wellcome-collection-through-february-24-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/death-a-self-portrait-the-wellcome-collection-through-february-24-2013.php","title":{"rendered":""Death: A Self Portrait," The Wellcome Collection, Through February 24, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In some way death in our culture happens offstage in private, but this show looks at the ways in which people have explored death much more face on. <\/i>--Kate Forde, Curator of \"Death: A Self Portrait,\" The Wellcome Collection, BBC Magazine<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>

My last night in London, I had the honor and delight to attend the preview of \"Death: A Self Portrait,\" the Wellcome Collection<\/a>'s spectacularly amazing new exhibition which officially opens today.<\/div>

Beautifully and thought-provokingly curated by Kate Forde (who also curated the Wellcome's 2009 Exquisite Bodies<\/a>), the exhibition uses as its base and its muse the extensive, broad, and rather profound death-themed collection of Chicago-based Richard Harris. Harris' collection is comprised of all things death, ranging from valuable artistic masterworks to the lowest-brow of popular culture, bringing to mind the collection of none other than Henry Wellcome<\/a>, the man behind the Wellcome Collection. To its merit, \"Death: A Self Portrait\" draws deftly from both extremes as well as all that is located in between; the result is an exhibition that is at a lovely, provocative, fascinating, witty, and thoughtful investigation into the human obsession with imagining and coming to terms with that greatest and most unknown of absolutes: DEATH.<\/p>

\"Death: A Self Portrait\" is divided up into five sections: The first, \"Contemplating Death,\" is a collection of memento mori<\/i><\/a> themed work; The second, \"The Dance of Death,\" gathers works responding to notions of the danse macabre <\/i>or <\/i>death as the great equalizer; \"Violent Death\" features a variety of artistic responses to war, including Goya's Disasters of War series<\/a>; \"Commemoration\" concerns itself with burial, morning, and our responses the particular dead; My personal favorite, \"Eros and Thanatos,\" is an unusual addition to a public discussion of death, and showcases \"works expressing our strange fascination with 'things at the outer limits of life and death, sexuality and pain.\"<\/p>

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Above are just a very few<\/i> images from this wonderful exhibition; there are many, many<\/i> more excellent artworks, objects and artifacts to be seen; I simply cannot more highly recommend checking out this jaw-dropper before its closing date on February 24th!<\/div>
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You can find out more about the show on the Wellcome Collection website by clicking here<\/a>; To hear the lovely illustrated interview with curator Kate Forde from which the above quote was drawn, click here<\/a>.

Also, for the interested among you: both collector-of-death Richard Harris and <\/i>curator Kate Forde will be contributors to the Morbid Anatomy Anthology<\/i>, a new lavish book immortalizing in words and images the best of Morbid Anatomy Presents; you can secure your own copy--and find out more--by clicking here.<\/a> For more on the Richard Harris collection, click here<\/a> to learn about a recent exhibition using his collection as its base at The Chicago Cultural Center.<\/a><\/p>

All images ©  Wellcome Images, Courtesy The Richard Harris Collection; captions, top to bottom:<\/p>

  1. Metamorphic Postcard, c.1900  <\/li>
  2. Skeleton puppet. Wood and cotton<\/li>
  3. Bathel Bruyn the elder, 'A Skull in a Niche', c.1535-55 Oil on panel<\/li>
  4. When Shall we Meet Again?Gelatin silver print Size, c.1900<\/li>
  5. Louis Crusius, Antikamnia, 1900 Paper: calendar series of 6, 1900<\/li>
  6. Marcos Raya, Untitled (family portrait: woman in yellow dress), 2005 Collage: vintage photo with mixed media<\/li>
  7. Dana Salvo, From the series 'The Day, the Night and the Dead': 'Home altar atop table commemorating ancestors', 1990-2004 Photograph<\/li>
  8. Alfred Rethel, 'Death the Enemy', 1851 Wood engraving<\/li>
  9. Memento Mori, unknown artist, late 18th-century Engraving<\/li>
  10. Mors Ultima Linea Rerum (Death the Final Boundary of Things), c.1570 Engraving, <\/li>
  11. Ivo Saliger 'Der Artz (The Doctor), c.1921 Colour etching on brown paper<\/li>
  12. Marcos Raya, Untitled (family portrait: grandma), 2005 <\/li><\/ol><\/div>
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