The Wellcome Collection has unveiled a new exhibition -- comprised of art works, artefacts and anatomical illustrations -- that examines the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it.
The exhibition has been assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago and includes rare prints from Rembrandt, D?rer and Goya displayed alongside human remains, war art and illustrations celebrating Mexico's Day of the Dead. Highlights include a group of ancient Incan skulls and a chandelier made from around 3000 plaster-cast bones.
There are five themed rooms: "Contemplating Death", which explores our own mortality and has works from Warhol and van Utrecht; "The Dance of Death", which focuses on the "universality of death", looking at plague, famine and war; "Violent Death", which looks at works depicting chaos and brutality; "Eros and Thanatos" presents work navigating our morbid excitement of death's proximity and "Commemoration" examines ideas of rituals around death.
Richard Harris says: "The collection was from the beginning meant to be shown as an exhibition to the public, never as a private, personal statement for my eyes only. I hoped to create a body of work that would chronologically and culturally capture the essence of death through its iconography, from masterpieces of fine art to the incidental. It is my wish that what started out solely as a collection of objects based on the theme of death will become the visual component for a more serious conversation about the subject of death that we need to have in our society."
The exhibition follows others such as Brains and Superhuman.
Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/14/wellcome-death
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