coffins DANTE AND THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST PORTRAIT SHOW
Elisa Ferrari Death is everywhere. We are inundated with images of lifeless bodies: news, current affairs programs, billboards and posters. Figures of twisted corpses, abandoned, decayed, piled up, settle on the lens and are revised by neural circuits.
No response, no turmoil. Death no longer belongs to us, is no longer ours, it is no longer part of life, is just death. We must show more and more detail, to be able to distance. Death has become a taboo, something to criticize, dismiss, forget, to pretend does not exist. The dead are far from us on TV, death can strike us, death media does not stink, does not hurt, curious, but do not understand, because they become inhuman. Newscast: "Some boys take over the phone with their friend dying on the sidewalk." No one does, the mind is already well on the internet, on youtube, where the movie can be loaded, clicked, saw him again.
telephone conversation with Gianfelice Facchetti, author / actor de The number of +, the expose these my mental meanderings ... "It 's a double-masked," he says, "we are victims of a repressive power that forces you to find alternative ways ... But if you know where the enemy, you also know the language to defend yourself. " From the conversation dense and shows that there is fierce in today's society, the incessant desire to replace the private and public, to make all events, the power to make you perform, we are in a society representation. The number of + is much inspired by two facts about precisely the theme of death in Vancouver, British Columbia was built around a nine-storey building dedicated to the celebration of 'funeral theme', exotic settings, rather than futuristic . Mortyland for short.
cofanifunebri.com On the other hand, death is offered as a sexual object of pleasure or semivestite half-naked women posing in provocative attitudes pseudo- leaning languidly of coffins in various models. A calendar, here. Then one - the future or a family member died? - Order the coffin of June because Clarissa is so vivid that it seems to sort a trinket on e-bay.
allusion to sex is better than death.
And then the game is all there: the censor death and aspire to eternal youth. In an age which denies reality to old age and disease on the vibrator and Botox become the one and only way to try and stretch as much as possible the farce.
Facchetti Then I ask what you guys think of that photograph the earth to mate with a cell phone: "It 's perception of the game: the game ended the game starts again, there is a sentimental and emotional illiteracy, playing on the edge because there is no limit."
But who is to teach what is the limit? Perhaps because it is no longer something that relates exclusively to adolescents: the spectacle of death becomes voyeuristic exhibition-in-autopsy shows the German artist Gunther von Hagens, better known as Dr. Death , pathologist cinquantottenne creator of plastination . The process, which is a real 'mummy-plasticizing' of human limbs, can make human bodies perfectly stiff and odorless.
It takes a body, preferably dead, even better if a pregnant woman or a man with physical deformities, it is immersed in a solution of acetone at -25 to ensure that drains fluids, replaced followed by injections in plastic fluid, which will solidify the exposure of ultraviolet rays. That's it, the subject is served, the matter ready to be sculpted, manipulated, sacrificed, or desecrated. At this point, Dr. Death will give vent to his artistic talent by acting directly on the meat, if they still can be called. So Dr. Death saw arms and legs and Hanging Nylon line giving 'life' to a grotesque puppet lanky and fluctuating, gutted the belly of a woman five months pregnant, highlighting the fetus, also plastination. Perhaps the process of plastination has been created for this very reason, to make their bodies less than human, to make more materials mere objects, mannequins. To have perhaps a less direct involvement, less intimate. Now the rest of the meat to a large extent has become plastic, inorganic matter, no decomposition, no liquids, smells, moods. The site reads Hagens Body Worlds, The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. Even if your real are not. This man is a monster? Certainly not a murderess, he takes them bodies in the morgues, it is entirely lawful, were signed statements before death.
Moral or immoral?
You might even think that, in view of a challenge to the death, a phenomenon of fashion in contemporary society, the work of Dr. Death fits perfectly in the race to immortality.
The fact is that the Hagens are exhibitions around the world and also oversubscribed.
What drives people to go see a show like that? Curiosity, morbidity? Once again, the death is being marketed, disclosed ... light, fresh, easy.
But once there was the Black Death ? Not now, we capture other colors: purple - which is dead, but going well so fashionable - it refers to purple flowers with the award which recognizes the 'best treatment to the dead and the family', then new colors for fabrics that will furnish the mortuary, new nuances, as the last shades of champagne ... tanatoestetica question.