Saturday, November 12, 2011

Flat out

Today is the 164th anniversary of the first use of chloroform by the British physician Sir James Young Simpson. To mark the occasion, here are four sculptures of men unconscious on the floor.
Images: Top Portrait of Ai Wei Wei by He Xiangyu. Middle left Gregor Schneider Man lying down with stiff cock and right, Maurizio Cattelan’s La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour). Bottom, Ron Muek’s Dead Dad