Gunther von Hagens continues to be talked about. Once again the most discussed exhibition in the world shocks Italy.
He first started in Tokyo in 1995. In Italy after a tour that started in 2015, this time the spotlight is on Milan. Here the reactions of visitors to the sight of the stuffed human and animal bodies have revealed a strong disturbance.
It is clear that particularly sensitive users cannot tolerate the sight of the "naked and raw" human body.
Gunther Von Hages: between science and art
Von Hagens, thanks to his medical studies, proposed a type of art that exhibits the body in a very different way. He preferred the more real form to painting, sculpture or dance.
Facial expressions, healthy or aged organs, in short, the exhibition has so much to offer and apparently so much more to talk about.
The number of sensitive stomachs who crowded the 118 switchboard in Milan increased; it was the lifeless bodies rendered odorless and with very “vivid” colors thanks to the techniques used by the artist, which impressed the Italian people. Body Worlds was even part of the set of the movie “Casino Royale” in Prague. Instead, it triggered very mixed reactions on Italian soil, certainly one of the artistic exhibitions that caused strong sensations.
Body Worlds
There are those who call “Body Worlds” brilliant, those who have deemed it bloody. In reality, the artist wanted to make people discover in a concrete way how it was a body, sometimes highlighting details of expressions that hide under the layer of the skin and demonstrating how some thoughts and moods influence the movement of nerves of which we are not even aware.
This technique was born for medical purposes to become one of the most influential events in the history of world art.
Thus a long list of brave people allowed the creator of plastination to use his own body for illustrative purposes - although there have been many controversies about it that have raised the question of the provenance of both human and animal corpses - by placing them in poses. that represent daily gestures, or extraordinary movements, such as those used by sportsmen or dancers. Von Hagens has made sure that it is no longer a mystery therefore what is hidden under the skin.
