{"id":72,"date":"2009-11-30T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-11-30T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:48:00","slug":"medicine-and-art-imaging-a-future-for-life-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Medicine and Art: Imaging a Future for Life and Love&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xQcUTpQ_yd4\/SxOjItjvnGI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/vfO-YoqhCkc\/s1600\/4136094860_2e8eea058d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xQcUTpQ_yd4\/SxOjItjvnGI\/AAAAAAAAALA\/vfO-YoqhCkc\/s400\/4136094860_2e8eea058d.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409846947465895010\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">View of the video installation by Magnus Wallin (<\/span><\/span><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Excercise Parade<\/span><\/span><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, 2001, double backprojection, 3-D animated video). Image courtesy Galerie Nordenhake, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Berli<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">D<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">espite its generic sounding title the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mori.art.museum\/eng\/exhibition\/index.html\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Mori Art Museum\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"> current show insightfully combines the old (Leonardo da Vinci) and the new (Damien Hirst), medical equipment and art, Nihonga painting and contemporary installations. The common tissue here, literally, is the human body\u2014its make-up, its existence and functions, its alteration and deterioration.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">The exhibition is immensely enjoyable as it presents more than a mere glimpse into the ways artists see humans and humanity. Their approaches, that run a gamut from admiration to pity, from curiosity to detachment, inevitably provoke a similar range of emotions in the visitors to the show. Many instances that cause such poignant reactions, not surprisingly, involve death, children and premature aging: Walter Schels\u2019 sullen photographs of an 18 month-old shortly before and immediately after her death (2004) and Patricia Piccinini\u2019s prematurely aged <\/span><\/span><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Game Boys<\/span><\/span><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"> (2002) are just two examples. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">On the opposite end of the spectrum is Gilles Barbier&#8217;s cheeky installation of the aged superheroes (<\/span><\/span><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">L&#8217;Hospice<\/span><\/span><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">, 2002), featuring saggy and wrinkly Wonderwoman, prone Captan America fit with an i.v., Superman supported by a walker and the Catwoman, catnapping in front of the turned off television. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment-->    <!--EndFragment-->     <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><o:p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"> Because the three sections of the show emphasize primarily the subject matter of the works, those who come in hopes of unadulterated aesthetic experiences from the art featured alongside various tomes on anatomy and scores of prosthetic limbs might end up disappointed. To be sure, looking through the medical artifacts (most of them from the Wellcome Trust collection) requires a different mode of seeing from that suitable for conceptual art, pen drawings by Leonardo, or Nihonga painting.  The show\u2019s visual schmorgesborg of art and manufactured articles forces the viewers to arbitrate continuously between their thinking and their emotions. Ironically, it is our very humanity that hinders our perception. The emotional stakes make it next to impossible to step back and allow for a duly museum detachment.<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">A tip: when you make it to Lee Byung Ho\u2019s 2009 <\/span><\/span><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Vanitas Bust<\/span><\/span><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"> in the room before last (right next to the <\/span><\/span><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Game Boys<\/span><\/span><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">), take your time looking at the bust. The show is on through February 28, 2010.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment-->   <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View of the video installation by Magnus Wallin (Excercise Parade, 2001, double backprojection, 3-D animated video). Image courtesy Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin Despite its generic sounding title the Mori Art Museum\u2019s current show insightfully combines the old (Leonardo da Vinci) and the new (Damien Hirst), medical equipment and art, Nihonga painting and contemporary installations. 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