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Dying in an Art Gallery

Artist’s Death Wish Raises the Bar

“If and when the controversial German artist Gregor Schneider manages to find a terminally ill volunteer to die for him under public gaze in a gallery - a project he has been mooting since 1996 and this month revealed has the backing of a doctor at a Dusseldorf clinic - art will have crossed what seemed like a final frontier.”
FirstPost.co.uk
For the morbidly curious, we are awash with scenes of kinetic death. The hanging of Saddam remains most popular. The Ethiopians starve to death in front of rolling cameras. Jihadists behead Westerners with regularity and the Iranian Police encourage mobs to witness public hangings.
Gregor Schneider presents a new dimension the opportunity to know the dying man up close and personal. Some people who have endured the last moments of a friend or loved one have come away with revelations.
Tombstones are monuments to the living.

posted on May 8, 2008 3:16 AM ()

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