Word: hirst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is also ample work to look at by Damien Hirst, the most prominent and furiously productive artist of his generation on the London scene. Hirst has been vilified by animal-rights groups for his sculptures incorporating dead animals, sliced down their middle or sideways and displayed in all their forensic grimness inside formaldehyde-filled cases. The alarming piece that first brought him fame is here as well: A Thousand Years (1990), with its vitrine full of maggots and flies that swarm over the bloody head of a cow. It's a little pocket of hell: nauseating, unerringly brutal...
...Brooklyn Museum of Art, where a new show called "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" is scheduled to open in early October. The exhibit, which drew more than 300,000 visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well as works by Chris Ofili, Marcus Harvey and 39 others. Visitors who make it past Hirst?s ill-fated animals will never mistake this show for an Impressionist retrospective: Ofili?s work "The Holy Virgin Mary" features a religious icon strategically smeared with elephant dung. Harvey?s piece...
...conscious works of Cindy Sherman and Sherrie Levine. Since then, artists across the globe have churned out paeans to corporate logos, toilet seats, detergent boxes and endlessly on. The best known of them--Jeff Koons in America, he of the polychromed statue of Michael Jackson and Bubbles; and Damien Hirst in England, infamous for his dead cow pickled in a formaldehyde-filled vitrine--epitomize the Post-Warhol Effect: whole careers can now be spun from a clutch of industrial knock-offs and icons of calculated sensationalism...
...even public AIDS-related art is new. Especially in the last decade, artists have been using scientific images such as anatomical models (Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith), and scientific specimens (Damien Hirst, Annette Messager). But Avery is unusual in bringing medicine itself--not simply a representation of medicine--into the museum. The literalness of translating medicine in to art (and vice-versa) in this exhibit distinguishes it from other such pieces...