Flayed, pickled, plastinated

摘要

A horse's head is sliced lengthwise into three sections and splayed a few centimetres apart. In another gallery, a 2-metre skinned shark hovers, its red blood vessels aglow. Each is the work of a controversial iconoclast, made rich by his grotesque creations. I am, of course, describing anatomist Gunther von Hagens' thrilling exhibition at London's Natural History Museum (NHM), a menagerie given the same patented plastination treatments as his blockbuster Body Worlds.