Controversial Czech artist uses human ashes as art material

The controversial Czech artist Roman Týc, from the Ztohoven group, is due to open an exhibition of pictures created from the ashes of deceased persons at the Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery in Prague on Tuesday evening. Challenged about abusing human remains the artist said there was a surplus of unwanted human ashes in crematoriums which ended up on dump heaps. He told the CTK news agency that with his Grave Robber exhibition he wanted to spark debate on the sick way present day society deals with death.