Netcare Exhibition credits Christiaan Barnard Exhibition overview & acknowledgments Memorial Hospital Entrance Lobby With special thanks to Richard Friedland for his passionate Threshold sculpture by Marco Cianfanelli and meticulous dedication in bringing this exhibition to Portrait of Professor Christiaan Barnard fruition and with gratitude to the late Jeremy Rose, A brief biography of Professor Barnard whose expert curatorial involvement provided the elegant Floor 9 conceptual seed from which this exhibition grew. A selection of South African doctors’ contributions to medicine Professor Barnard’s contribution to medicine A brief history of intesive care medicine Exhibition Content & photographs Floor 10 Concept: Beaufort West Museum Marco Cianfanelli Heart of Cape Town Museum The first successful human heart transplant Jeremy Rose Dr Jose de Nobrega Dr Des Fernandes Professor Barnard’s contribution to the development of the Project Management Dr Otto Thanning prosthetic aortic valve replacement Jocelyn Rhodes Dr Heinz Mödler The future of heart transplantation Curation & research Dene Friedman Juliet White Karin Berman Floor 11 Co-curation & design Sister Georgina de Klerk Professor Barnard’s contribution to paediatrics Natalie Edwards Olga Sokoloff Professor Barnard’s awards and gifts from patients Writing Interviews Physician’s Oath / Nurse’s Pledge of Service Angus Douglas Dr Jose de Nobrega Proof reading Celeste McCann Floor 12 Glenn O’Hearne, Peter Warrener, Dene Friedman Robert Sobukwe’s time at Groote Schuur Hospital Richard Friedland Dr Willie Koen Tribute to Hamilton Naki and his laboratory team Exhibition & graphic design Dr Otto Thanning Dr Des Fernandes The Heterotopc or “piggyback” heart transplant technique Carina Comrie Michael Tymbios Deirdre Barnard Visser Sister Tollie Lampbrecht Floor 14 Technical design Dr Susan Vosloo A glance at the monumental decade of the 1960s Nico van Loggerenberg Dr Cecil Moss Professor Barnard regarding the transplant Exhibit fabrication Sister Georgina de Klerk Russell Jones at Scanshop Helen Simmons & Gary Klugman Cabinet Curation Floor 15 Portrait of Professor Roger van Wyk at Educentric Two of South Africa’s most famous icons Christiaan Barnard Life Magazine celebrates the first heart transplant Cabinets Simon Croft Exhibition Photographs of the first successful heart transplant patient Artist: Marco Cianfanelli Louis Washkansky’s ECG the moment his new heart began to beat Threshold artwork Technical design Artist: The studio of Marco Cianfanelli Guide Floor 16 Marco Cianfanelli Fabrication Professor Barnard remembered by those who knew him Technical design Russell Jones at Scanshop Barnard’s personal struggle with arthritis The studio of Marco Cianfanelli Barnard’s first autobiography “One Life” and review of the book. CNC cutting Rayno von Schlicht at Rind Routing Carpentry Nils Korupp at Joynt Design Lighting Design Pamboukian Lighting Design Netcare 3 Christiaan Barnard December Memorial Hospital 1967 Professor Christiaan Barnard achieved international fame On 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital for expanding the boundaries of medicine. Barnard was not in Cape Town, a young surgeon by the name of only committed to furthering medical science, he was also Dr Christiaan Barnard and his team performed the deeply committed to patient care. In this exhibition Netcare world’s first human heart transplant. Once the news honours Barnard the man, and pays tribute to the principles reached the world the barefoot boy from Beaufort West he stood for: science in service of humanity, and patient care had become a superstar surgeon. in service of the individual. This exhibition is also for all the unsung champions of the healthcare profession. Those who dedicate their lives to these principles; serving the health and wellbeing of the individual to make our world a better place. “My moment of truth – the moment when the The Netcare Christiaan Barnard Hospital was opened on 3 December 2016, the 49th anniversary enormity of it all really hit of the world’s first human heart transplant. me – was just after I had taken out Washkansky’s heart. I looked down and saw this empty space… the realisation that there was a man lying in front of me without a heart but still alive was, I think, the most Louis Washkansky wheeled to the Radiotherapy Unit for awe-inspiring moment of all.” cobalt treatment to prevent rejection after his heart transplant. © Photograph courtesy of Georgina de Klerk Professor Christiaan Barnard Quoted by Peter Hawthorne in “The Transplanted Heart” 1 2 Portrait of Professor Threshold Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital Conceived as a work that sits between exhibit content and Foreshore, Cape Town, 2016 artwork, this composite portrait speaks of the complexity 18 MM BIRCH PLYWOOD of Professor Christiaan Barnard’s character, expressed 3 MM MILD STEEL HANGERS AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE through the artifacts of his personal and professional HEIGHT 2,4 M relationships. The installation is composed of a collection WIDTH 10,2 M DEPTH 8 M of portrait artworks of Barnard, given to him by patients, in a show of gratitude for his work and care. When Marco Cianfanelli began to imagine a means of creating a portrait At the moment on the 3rd December 1967, that Louis Along the sculptures’ opposite axis, in contrast to its of this complex subject, he considered that Barnard might Washkansky’s heart was removed, Professor Christiaan undulating forms, are the linear slices of vacant space, that best be described by those whose lives were profoundly Barnard stared, for the first time, into an empty living express both the enduring skeletal structure of the rib cage, influenced by his work. The Beaufort West Museum housed human chest cavity. In later accounts of the event he as well as the amplified unfolding of the crucial moments this collection of artworks dedicated to Barnard, and the recalls that “at that moment the full impact of what I was between one heart’s removal, and the other’s insertion. decision was made to include their voices in this tribute. doing hit me”. That open chest cavity came to represent In this regard, the sculpture is both form and space, Each portrait depicts Barnard as he was seen through the potential, hope, faith and perseverance. It was this notion representing the transitional moment between states of eyes of a patient, while the fragmented photograph depicts that inspired Marco Cianfanelli’s suspended sculpture existence. The threshold contains a space in which the linear the many facets of his personality. Threshold. flow of time is suspended in a moment of veiled potential. About the Artist The sculpture is an archway, the threshold where the Rippling out from the immersed forms of the heart, are the arrangement of 75 linear plywood profiles represents the waves of its final heartbeat. The organ’s last burst of life, as Marco Cianfanelli was born in Johannesburg in 1970 and incremental expansion of the moment in time where the chillingly recorded in Louis Washkansky’s electrocardiogram, graduated with a distinction in Fine Art from the University of impossible suddenly and dramatically becomes possible. fell to flat inactivity while the surgeons prepared to insert the the Witwatersrand. He has won numerous awards, including Modelled on the form of a human heart, each of the profiles donor heart. In that moment, devoid of any heart activity, the the ABSA L’Atelier and Ampersand Fellowship. Cianfanelli is individually describe the subtle organic complexities of the patient’s life was sustained and monitored by machines. renowned for his bold public art pieces and large sculptural cardiac chambers. Collectively, the profiles resolve into The gentle ripples in the plywood structure suggest the works. He was a member of the design team for Freedom an archway that suggest an anatomical form, or an interior waning of one source of energy, and simultaneously, the Park, South Africa’s national monument to freedom, and his biological chasm. latent potential of another. fragmented portrait sculpture, Release, forms the centrepiece of the Nelson Mandela Capture Site in KwaZulu-Natal. Cianfanelli’s large-scale public works can be seen in South Africa, the Middle East and the United States. His artworks can be found in public and private collections across the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. www.marcocianfanelli.com 5 6 7 8 CBMH Floor 9 Christiaan Barnard’s Contribution 09 to Medicine He introduced the principles of specialist postoperative care to Groote Schuur Hospital, and developed South Africa’s first intensive care unit (ICU), established in 1958. Theatre complex Surgical Intensive Care Unit Paediatric Professor Christiaan Barnard demonstrated extraordinary levels of care and concern for his patients, sacrificing much Intensive Care Unit of his own time to be with them. After surgery he would spend hours watching over his patients, particularly if they were children. He set a standard of postoperative care that Exhibition Overview even his younger registrars and doctors found hard to keep pace with. This level of care undoubtedly contributed to the A selection of SA’s doctors’ contributions to medicine recovery of his patients. Professor Barnard’s contribution to medicine A brief history of intensive care medicine On the rare occasions when he himself was sick, his doctors would complain that he would often defy their orders to stay in bed so that he could check on his own patients. “To me it was just one more new operation in the long list of procedures made possible by the development of the heart-lung machine.” First heart transplant recipient, Louis Washkansky, referred to Barnard as “The man with the golden hands”. © Gallo 10 11 CBMH The first Floor 10 successful human heart transplant “…We have a man in the hospital here, and we can save his life if you give us permission to use your 10 daughter’s heart…” Cath labs Cardiac Care Unit On a Saturday afternoon, 2 December 1967, Denise Darvall, her brother Keith and her parents stopped in Main Medical Intensive Care Unit Road in Salt River, Cape Town, to buy cake for a friend.