Alternating between hyper - realistic representations of the human body and
decomposed images of body parts which remain barely decipherable in form, his works embrace a newly minimal approach highlighting empty canvas space and isolated symbols.
Not exact matches
Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center
of all the universe, created in the
image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more
of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because
of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our
bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck
of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater
of the universe.
The attackers left in their wake gory
images of mutilated and sometimes
decomposing bodies littering burnt and vandalised communities in Guma and Logo local government areas.
Violence: C All violence presented in slapstick / swashbuckling / non-explicit fashion, often using computer animated effects such a bizarre
images of deformed people,
bodies «melting» or
decomposing, and animated monsters.
I MAY have been a Turner Prize virgin, but when I walked into the Tate Britain for the preview
of this year's exhibition and was faced with
decomposing bodies, blow - up dolls engaging in a sex act and vases depicting
images of child abuse, I can not say I was very surprised.
The show at Guild Hall includes
images of a cryopreservation unit (where the dead are preserved by freezing), a glass flask containing live HIV cells, and a
decomposing corpse that's part
of the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, known in popular culture as the
Body Farm.