Gunther von Hagens

Gunther von Hagens is well known for "his pioneering invention that halts decomposition of the body after death and preserves it for didactic eternity." 

Gunther von Hagens has plasticised animals and humans, including his closest friends after their deaths; his work takes the 'uncanny' to the extreme with the use of human bodies so grotesquely stripped of their human essence yet holding some sort of characteristic and presence in the living world. 









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