Michel de Spiegeleire ‘Homo sapiens’ sculpture electrogalvanic creature, object of curiosity

This Homo sapiens was created by Michel de Spiegeleire, a Belgian artist who, in association with Henri Vernes, the creator of Bob Morane, designed The Forbidden Collection, a book and an exhibition in which a whimsical archaeologist, Humboldt Fonteyne, is said to have discovered strange creatures (a mummified Martian in the desert of New Mexico, etc.). This exhibition was populated by imaginary creatures.
Comments on the book:
The truth at last? This is a strange book. Difficult to classify in any case. A biography? In part, yes. A scientific work? Undoubtedly, but... Because there is a but! Who is this Alexandre Humboldt-Fonteyne? An astonishing character about whom we know very little.
Disappeared from the collective memory, ignored by dictionaries and scientific treatises, Humboldt-Fonteyne re-emerged from the mists of time somewhat by chance, in 1995, in Siberia, thanks to Michel de Spiegeleire, a Belgian art historian and archaeologist. It was somewhat by chance that Mr de Spiegeleire tracked down this great adventurer and explorer.
From 1909 to 1939, the year of his mysterious disappearance, which has not yet been solved, Alexandre Humboldt-Fonteyne travelled the world from east to west and from north to south. The many discoveries he made were stored in Italy, stolen by the Germans and then, in 1945, confiscated by the Soviet authorities. It was not until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism that, after years of effort, this prodigious collection resurfaced.
This book is divided into several parts: Henri Vernes, in his preface, begins by recounting his meeting with the Franco-German explorer in China in 1937. This is followed by a full biography and a lengthy account of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and rediscovery of the immense collection, only a small part of which was presented to the public at an exhibition in Brussels in March-April 2000.