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Taxidermia Wurzeltodensis
Posted in Alex CF, Cryptozoology, Curiosa & Forteana, Taxidermy & Grotesk by Suzanne on August 6th, 2007 |Â BBC Wikipedia
Hopeless Romantic by Colette Calascione, oil on wood, 10″ x 15″, 1996
‘Story has it, a boy came face-to-face with that animal…. right here. Right where we’re standing now.
Over the years it carried on like this - thieving different parts of people like it wanted to be a person.
Until it looked just like you or me, on the outside. But the only human part it never got was the —‘
(From: The Cat With Hands by Robert Morgan)
Without further ado, here it finally is: The often-promised and long-awaited Taxidermy, Cryptozoology & Animal Curiosa Ãœberpost - dedicated to a very precious and talented friend of mine: The lovely Jessica Joslin. Thank you for creating an outstanding oeuvre that keeps inspiring us!
NOTE TO READERS:
If you’re a taxidermist, cryptozoologist or curiosa photographer/multimedia artist, please feel free to leave a comment so that I can complete this comprehensive taxidermy link collection (and seize world dominance). Thank you.
P.S: Don’t miss this nifty slideshow with all the artworks featured below. Enjoy!
Phew. My work here is done. I guess I can could retire from blogging now…
This article has been listed on:
Tia Resleure’s A Case of Curiosities
Animal Furniture Part 1 |Â Part 2
Børre Sæthre (via Fluffy Lychees)
Cai Guo-Qiang (II - via WMMNA)
Carlee Fernandez (via Michelle - where on earth are you, girl? I miss you…)
Athanasius Kircher’s Cat Piano (via Robotbrain)
Courtney Payne (via and hosted by Carlee Fernandez)
Erick Swenson (via WMMNA)
Finch & C° (via Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society)
Hardy Burmeier (via Tinselman)
Jeff de Boer (via ExquisiteCorpse)
John Espinosa (via Bunnylicious)
Karen Knorr (via Hysteria)
Les Deux Garcons (via Phantasmaphile)
Lola Isern (via and hosted by Carlee Fernandez)
Michael Sans (via DesignBoom)
Mike Libby (via Meredith Yayanos)
Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists
Hajime Emoto’s Museum of Fantastic Specimens (II)
Pascal Bernier (via WMMNA)
Bill Burns’ Safety Gear For Small Animals (via WMMNA)
Sandy Skoglund (via Armchair Aquarium)
Simen Johan (via Lost At E Minor)
György Pálfi’s Taxidermia (via my brother. Thanks for the DVD!)
Tessa Farmer (via Spy’s Spice)
This Must Be Designed By Idiots
Walter Potter’s Museum of Curiosities (hosted by A Case of Curiosities)
RECENT ADDITIONS
Angela Singer (via Jeanie)
The Guardian: Back from the dead
Martin Schwarz’s Bürstentierchen
Jon Gipe’s Cabinet of Curiosities (via BoingBoing)
Wurzeltod’s Cabinets de Curiosités
David McKinley’s Heads & Tails Taxidermy
Ione Rucquoi (via Nikki Magennis)
Curious Expedition’s Monstrorium Historia (.. and photo set)
Jeanie M.’s Mouse Angel
Takeshi Yamada’s Museum of World Wonders
Polly Morgan (via Melanie Haarhaus)
damien says:
brilliant stuff suzie!
August 6th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Suzanne says:
Thank you. You should really get a copy of “Taxidermia” once it’s out with English subtitles. It’s highly bizarre and.. uhm.. Hungarian.
August 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
peacay says:
Wow. Thanks for the effort Suzanne. Makes a fella want to hunt, kill and mount something.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Robert says:
brilliant and beautiful. but that’s what we have learned to expect.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
nikki says:
Hello - love the site. This woman makes photographs that involve animals, and I thought you might find them interesting…
http://www.ionerucquoi.com/home.htm
Merci!
August 8th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
chewing pixels » Best Thing I Saw Today #17: Cryptotaxidermy Gallery says:
[...] Suzanne Gerber lifts the veil of an extraordinary collection of images featuring animals posed in future-biologist teasing ways… [...]
August 8th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Suzanne says:
Thanks for the kind words, peacay and gracias for the feature on M.A.R.T., Robert! You’re very kind.
@nikki: Ooooh! What a great photographic portfolio Mme Rucquoi has. Sopor Aeternus meets Matthew Barney. Very inspiring. Thanks! I particularly like “Birthday Girl” and “My Bete Noire ” I’ll add her link to the above post.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
melanie says:
a great list!!
i remember another taxidermist with wonderful work here-www.pollymorgan.co.uk
thank you!
August 9th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Jessica says:
Thank you soooo much my sweet brillant darling! Such delicious eyeball treats. It’s an honor to be in . MWAH!
August 9th, 2007 at 5:38 am
nicole says:
thank you so much for taking the time to compile this wonderfully rich collection of spectacular artists and works. i have been starting to use natural specimens in my own recent work, but no images to share just yet (but check back in the fall).
incredibly inspiring!
August 10th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Eugene says:
Here is another addition: http://www.eugeneparnell.com/portfolio.html
Thank you for a comprehensive collection!
August 12th, 2007 at 1:09 am
peacay says:
Woot! You’re an academic!
August 12th, 2007 at 6:53 am
bioephemera.com » Lovely bones says:
[...] This is a resource to bookmark immediately. . . the “Taxidermy, Cryptozoology & Animal Curiosa Ãœberpost” from Wurzeltod. [...]
August 12th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Yetused says:
Consider Herr Kid’s blog category “Taxidermie” about beautiful shots from the streets.
It inspired me for my first bird just today! And ten minutes later I find this topic on your site. Talk about coincidence…
August 14th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
D says:
We at Curious Expeditions do a fair bit of taxidermy photography also. Our photos taken at various Natural History museums may be of interest.
We wrote a bit about it at here as well.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
LifeParticles.com » It’s a dog, and it’s stuffed, and it’s for you! says:
[...] Taxidermia! Animal furniture! Via tanned hides! Related Posts: [...]
August 17th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
nora says:
hallo susette
habe heute den schlussdurchgang vom eidgenössischen geschaut. finde den abderhalden jörg noch recht attraktiv! naja… sonst alles o.k. mit mir. ich wünsche dir eine gute woche und hoffe, es geht dir gut,
nora
August 26th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Björn says:
Hej, thank you for this! The dancing baby skeletons of the Museo delle Cere Anatomiche are wurzeltodensis-worth:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/898319136/in/set-72157601006148327/
August 31st, 2007 at 1:19 am
Intelligent design | tiefes leben says:
[...] Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich auf Wurzeltod diesen absoluten Ãœberpost “Taxidermia Wurzeltodensis” entdeckt und war schlichtweg begeistert. Da ist nun all das versammelt was mein neugierig schauerndes Herz begehrt. Meine kleine Lieblingsliste enthalte ich euch nicht vor (eine weitere, mit nicht-Artefakt Tieren, die anders sind, gibt es hier bald): Da sind natürlich Patricia Piccininis übersüße Mammalia . Niedlich ist auch dieser vielarmige Batoidoidee, sicher kein böser Räuber. [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 1:25 am
Hilary Glime says:
What an awesome list!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Suzanne says:
Thank you all very much for submitting your own (crypto-) taxidermy links. I added the ones I liked to the Taxidermia Wurzeltodensis überpost. Yay!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
arc says:
This is the best most helpful gathering of the weirdly animal on the net. I saw Angela Singer work on Who Killed Bambi today, her deers would be a good link.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Suzanne G. - Giving Taste A Bad Name Since Kindergarten says:
[...] Features Anaïs Nin Araki Nobuyoshi Cabinets de Curiosités Catacombe dei Cappuccini Edward Gorey Fumetto Comics Festival Geof Kern Maurizio Cattelan Spooky Video Special Taxidermia [...]
September 24th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Suzanne says:
Thank you, arc! Her link has been added.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
ectoplasmosis » A Rebuttal says:
[...] Please everyone, pray they have mercy on me. Walter Potter [A Case of Curiosities] : Suzanne G. : Morbid Anatomy [...]
October 10th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
dikonstrukt says:
These are excellent. Those Mike Libby insects are amazing.
What about Amy Ross?
November 19th, 2007 at 3:11 am
amy ross says:
Thanks for the mention, dikonstrukt! This is such an amazing list to have discovered.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Taxidermia on Wurzeltod | beinArt Surreal Art News Blog says:
[...] Suzanne G's site Wurzeltod is a fantastic resource for artists and features artwork by Ray Caesar. [...]
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 am
Suzanne G. - Giving Taste A Bad Name Since Kindergarten says:
[...] Features Anaïs Nin Araki Nobuyoshi Cabinets de Curiosités Catacombe dei Cappuccini Edward Gorey Fumetto Comics Festival Geof Kern Maurizio Cattelan Porcellana Nervosa Spooky Video Special Taxidermia [...]
January 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
mechanical ponderings » Blog Archive » ~And To What End, Comets?~ says:
[...] A wunder-blog to fritter away your whole afternoon, The Athanasius Kircher Society. Three fellow curious, here, here, and here. A lovely book site, BibliOdyssey, linked here to a page about Tradescant, whose museum opened this post. The fabulous museum of Jurrasic Technology. Getty’s Devices of Wonder exhibit. P. T. Barnum’s Lost Museum, and Calzolari and Settala. Peter the Great’s Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. The Doyen of Decay, a photographer of cabinets Rosamond Wolff Purcell also here. Zymoglyphic Museum has great detailed pictures of seven Baroque collections, among many other things. The King’s Kunstkammer, and a fine resource of nature-related art. The Secret Museum of Mankind, a book I once bought at Urban Ore, or was it the Marin flea? and proceeded to be amazed by the total lack of context and unbelievable captions. Reproduced here in its entirety. Baron Guillaume Dupuytren’s Musée, another museum I am dying to see, the Uffizi, Florence, and the Mütter Museum, my visit to which is deserving of a whole other post. A nice metaphor, come to life. [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Lisa Temple-Cox says:
i was given a link to your website by fellow artists who thought i might be interested. And i am! what a find! a wonderful world of arts,and links to fantastic sites- i have lost a whole day already!
i enclose a link to some of my work, in case you think it might sit well with these others. many thanks.assemblage, collage, mixed media
September 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
izi says:
were is lisa black?
December 16th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Suzanne G. - Giving Taste A Bad Name Since Kindergarten» Blog Archive » Jessica Joslin at Billy Shire: Opening Tonight says:
[...] taxidermia [...]
January 10th, 2009 at 9:52 pm