Damien Hirst's infamous pickled animals are beginning to rot. Big surprise there. Afterall, they are corpses. It was just a matter of time before they decomposed. Although they are suspended in formaldehyde containers, I read where one of them sprung a leak! Hah. How would you like to clean up that mess?
Hirst caused a stir back in the day when he began passing dead animals off for art. I think it was a really neat idea. It relates to this idea of immortality. But, the general public thought it was the most atrocious thing ever to happen to the art world. I don't see what the big fuss is about. In it's day, it was new and fresh (well maybe not so literally fresh!)
Hirst is going to have to replace the animals like his famous shark because it is decomposing. But when should an artist have to repair or replace his or her artwork? Afterall, nothing is going to last. Conservers can only make it last a little longer. Then again the person who bought the work paid millions of dollars for it. Should a painter have to touch up a painting he painted fifty years ago? hmmmm....
3 comments:
I know that curiousity kills cats but do you happen to have any "Trip Cross Country" prints left?
oh man, i dont know if i do...i still have the plate though, i might need to crank out a few!
did he do the dissected horse that was in the movie the cell (i think that was in there)?
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