Five things to see at ArtScience Museum’s Flesh And Bones exhibition

It features 160 artefacts and artworks to do with the body, from anatomical drawings to a preserved head. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – The ArtScience Museum’s new exhibition features 160 artefacts and artworks to do with the body, from historical anatomical drawings to a preserved head.

Flesh And Bones: The Art Of Anatomy opens on March 21. Here are five things not to miss.

Recently acquired by Los Angeles art centre Getty Research Institute, these three 18th-century studies of male bodies are among a handful in the world – impactful for their sheer size and exactitude of detail.

They are ecorche figures, which means their skins have been removed to reveal the underlying flexed muscles. Printmaker Antonio Cattani in the 18th century has captured them beautifully in etching and engraving.

At the time, they could be bought by medical students and artists, part of a trend then of full-scale representations of the human body.

This trio are modelled after the wood figures supporting the lecturer chair’s canopy in the University of Bologna’s anatomical theatre. Lectures were held there as well as dissections of animals and humans.