On the wall of the Wellcome Collection in London is a colour pencil drawing of a man’s crotch that makes me wince. It is a self-portrait, featuring a dangling penis, curly thigh hairs and a post-operative scar indicating that the subject has had a testicle removed. It is by Michael Landy, the British artist perhaps best known for his 2001 artwork Breakdown, a performance piece in which he destroyed everything he owned at the old C&A store on Oxford Street.
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The Welllcome Collection: where science and art are encouraged to meet Stuart Jeffries profiles the work of the Wellcome Collection - The Guardian 25t
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The uneasy link between war and medicine - BBC Health News 21st November 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Two works of art, two stories. Each portray the stark realities of war in their time, and show how medicine has struggled over the years to heal the injured.
In one corner of the Wellcome Collection, a huge canvas depicts a World War I soldier “being heaved out of the mud” on a stretcher, as curator Kate Forde puts it.
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