[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3592″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text]Death, A Self-Portrait

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE

till February 24, 2013

Photos: nathalie hambro

Some 300 works are gathered from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago, the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya will be displayed alongside anatomical drawings, war art and antique metamorphic postcards; human remains will be juxtaposed with Renaissance vanitas paintings and twentieth century installations celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead. From a group of ancient Inca skulls, to a spectacular chandelier made of 3000 plaster-cast bones by British artist Jodie Carey, this singular collection, by turns disturbing, macabre and moving, opens a window upon our enduring desire to make peace with death.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3593″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3594″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3595″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3596″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3597″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3598″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3599″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3600″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3601″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3602″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3603″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3604″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3605″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3606″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3607″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3608″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_single_image image=”3609″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”with-link”]    back to ART DIARY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]