Category Archives: Anatomy

Freshly released from the amazing toy designer, Emilio Garcia:

LapoLab and Black Square Gallery present the first Bronze editions of EMILIO GARCIA XL Jumping Brain.

Fall 2011, Emilio Garcia will be presenting a Polished Bronze and a Black and Bronze version of its celebrated Jumping Brain, each will be a limited edition of 10 and is expected to cost $6,000 or 4,000€.

This XL piece weighs over 17Lbs and measures 8.5 x 17 x 13.3 inches and will be presented in a nice wooden box with. Black Square Gallery will be taking pre-orders for 5 of the 10 editions of each version. The rest will be exhibit at art fairs and art galleries in the US and Europe, and made available for collectors and visitors of this events.

If you are interested in pre-ordering any of it, please email ron@blacksquaregallery.com or contact@emiliogarcia.org

A 17 pound brain!  Mighty impressive.

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Hi all. My sincere apologies for falling behind on Morbid Anatomy. I am currently living in Seoul, Korea as part of the very generous Apex Art Outbound Residency Program (thanks, Josh Foer!), and one of the obligations of the residency is to blog about my experiences. Sadly, this had taken my focus off Morbid Anatomy a bit.

I promise to do my best over this next month in Korea to get some Morbid Anatomy reportage done; in the meantime, if you are curious about what I am finding in Seoul, you can check out my Apex Art blog here.

Thanks for your patience, and I will be back in full force in mid-September!

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We’ve all been bombarded by skull shirts lately, but this one designed by Corky blends anatomy and design exquisitely.

Super soft tee hand printed in Melbourne. For those of you who like to touch, another nice detail is that some of the triangles are bleached into the teeshirt while others are printed in plastisol, the variation providing a texturally interesting experience.

I want to touch it or touch someone wearing it.

Available for $49 at Corky. I only wish they had these in lady sizes!

Oh my god.  Apart from my usual lust for being back in London, I especially wish I could have been there to see this show by Australian artist, Helen Pynor, at the GV Art gallery. Never before have I seen quite an explicit use of human viscera in such a way as to evoke beauty and discomfort simultaneously.  Representing death, fragility, and the apathy of medical science (hello left-over organs from anatomy lab), Helen’s photographs are a true bridge between anatomy and art. Equally as interesting is the inspiration behind the photographs [from GV Art]:

The unlikely starting point for this body of work was research Pynor undertook into incidents of accidental drowning in the Thames, inspired by her first year in London in 2009-2010 which was spent working by the river. Beguiled by the river’s shifting tides and lethal currents, she researched some of the thousands of recorded cases of accidental drowning in the river, from incidents involving hundreds of victims drowned in mass disasters through to those in which a lone victim met their end.

Viewing the rest of Helen’s anatomically inspired work is a must at helenpynor.com.

[Spotted by Kimberly via io9]

Beautifully rendered heart vase by Veneri Design.

Flower Pump is inspired by the muscle of love,
…every artery leads straight to the heart…

The Flower Pump comes in a variety of glosses and is available for purchase at Shapeways.

[Spotted by April via Design Milk]

What could be better than gold and leather with a hint of skulls? This Alexander McQueen cuff bracelet comes in at a cool $510. It’s one of my favorites in their collection of skull adorned accessories. Classy, yet very unique.