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The “Grave Robber” Series

Image courtesy Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery

Controversial Czech artist Roman Týc exhibited 19 demure portraits painted with… dum-dum-DUM… human ash. According to the Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery, the Grave Robber series highlights “our strangely biased relationship to death” and the materials — alleged surpluses of ashes from Prague crematoriums — would have been trashed into a garbage dump, as Prague crematoriums are notoriously known to do. With the art show dubbed “morbid” and “inappropriate” by critics, the gallery vowed to honorably disperse the ashes, after conclusion.