Belgian Glass Artist Pumps Blood into Sculpture

Laurence Dervaux, from Belgium, has created a sculpture which represent various body parts, including the heart, intestines, abdomen and cells, filled with colored liquids (not real blood, folks) corresponding to body fluids such as breast milk, water, blood and urine.
Before you say YUCK! The Seoul, South Korea exhibit at the Maison Hermes, 3rd floor in the Sinso-dong district, showcases how Dervaux recreates the human body's internal organs, bones and fluids with transparent glass and fragile porcelain sculptures. Beautiful and delicate, these glass "body sculptures" also exude mystery.
The article appears in the January 16 Korea Sun Times website. Wonder what the Belgian has as a contact to South Korea and this Hermes Center. Anybody know what this is?

Mystery of: "Why did someone make me?" We say at Nourot art always asks a question, and this artist worked really hard to get us to ask: "Why?"
Gigi Lee gave us a load of test tubes and perhaps we could make a similar thingy at Nourot Glass, but fill it withh gold flecks, boy, and the public will love it.

Here's some more on the review in artist speak: "The artist visualizes the `vital force' with the `materiality' of liquid and solids to ask a question on the essence of life and death between organic and geometric forms, freedom and order, transparency and opacity." Whew, and we just thought he liked to glue stuff together!
Here's what all this hard work looks like:
As you enter the gallery, the first work that visitors will see is a series of glass sculptures "Human Fluids" on 15 pedestals. Each one is meant to represent various body parts, including the heart, intestines, abdomen and cells. The liquids inside the glass parts corresponding to body fluids such as breast milk, water, blood and urine.

"Human Fluids" is much more interesting, besides, in that the glass sculpture is created by blowing the melted glass at the end of an iron pipe," the gallery said.
Ya think? Let us know if you'd like to see glass art with "content" bu us in 2009.