Damien Hirst
I went for another Mobius meeting again. This time to discuss about our proposals for the Duality exhibition. Stupid Elroy disappeared with my mediocre sketches so I had to improvise and try to put my idea across. Rui Long seems uninterested in doing this with Elroy and I, probably because the last time we teamed up, the two of them didn't really see eye to eye.
What was really interesting, however, was one of Fauzi's ideas. He talked about wanting to use resin to preserve half a flower. The other half would be left to wilt. It would then show life and death simultaneously, maybe more like death and preservation. One co-existing with another. We brainstormed on how we could carry it out if we didn't use resin. We came up with white glue because when it dries, it becomes transparent and it just so happens that the art room always has white glue easily available. Just experimenting but a flower is submerged in white glue in the art room now. Hopefully by Monday, the next meeting, it'll be dried and ready.
Apparently, Fauzi got the idea from an artist called Damien Hirst. One of his most famous works from 1991, in an exhibition titled "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", is this..
Such a sick yet ingenius idea. He filled a glass tank with formaldehyde, which is used for embalming to preserve a dead body, and submerged the carcass of a tiger shark in it. Impressive installation.
Another sick one is sort of worked on the theme of that nursery rhyme or something. "This little piggy went to the market.. This little piggy stayed home". So the guy cut a real piglet in half and put the two halves on display. One half, you could see the internal organs (went to the market?), the other you just see the pig (stayed at home). Clever, but gross.
Fauzi also mentioned one about where Damien Hirst used real maggots in one side of the container. The maggots were allowed to grow. But on the other side of the container, he placed a fly zapper. So you could guess what happens? Interesting way to demonstrate life and death. But the guy comes across as one who's cruel to animals doesn't he?
Well, I came home and google-d for Damien Hirst and tried to find out more about him. Though he paints really well..
"Autopsy with sliced Human Brain" - 2004
It's still morbid.
It seems his most famous works are all dead animals preserved in glass tanks of formaldehyde. Animals stuck in death.
And oh, billionairse Steve Cohen bought that tiger shark in formaldehyde for an estimated US$8 million.
But ironically, while trying to preserve the installations in formaldehyde, it seems that the carcasses are still decomposing.
Interview with Damien Hirst.
What was really interesting, however, was one of Fauzi's ideas. He talked about wanting to use resin to preserve half a flower. The other half would be left to wilt. It would then show life and death simultaneously, maybe more like death and preservation. One co-existing with another. We brainstormed on how we could carry it out if we didn't use resin. We came up with white glue because when it dries, it becomes transparent and it just so happens that the art room always has white glue easily available. Just experimenting but a flower is submerged in white glue in the art room now. Hopefully by Monday, the next meeting, it'll be dried and ready.
Apparently, Fauzi got the idea from an artist called Damien Hirst. One of his most famous works from 1991, in an exhibition titled "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", is this..
Such a sick yet ingenius idea. He filled a glass tank with formaldehyde, which is used for embalming to preserve a dead body, and submerged the carcass of a tiger shark in it. Impressive installation.
Another sick one is sort of worked on the theme of that nursery rhyme or something. "This little piggy went to the market.. This little piggy stayed home". So the guy cut a real piglet in half and put the two halves on display. One half, you could see the internal organs (went to the market?), the other you just see the pig (stayed at home). Clever, but gross.
Fauzi also mentioned one about where Damien Hirst used real maggots in one side of the container. The maggots were allowed to grow. But on the other side of the container, he placed a fly zapper. So you could guess what happens? Interesting way to demonstrate life and death. But the guy comes across as one who's cruel to animals doesn't he?
Well, I came home and google-d for Damien Hirst and tried to find out more about him. Though he paints really well..
"Autopsy with sliced Human Brain" - 2004
It's still morbid.
It seems his most famous works are all dead animals preserved in glass tanks of formaldehyde. Animals stuck in death.
And oh, billionairse Steve Cohen bought that tiger shark in formaldehyde for an estimated US$8 million.
But ironically, while trying to preserve the installations in formaldehyde, it seems that the carcasses are still decomposing.
Interview with Damien Hirst.
posted by ashh at 4:39 pm
3 Comments:
haha.. you really do your research huh.. i thought the first one was interesting. but the second. i almost choked on my biscuits. bah..well, artists are artists because what really matters is that billionair was willing to buy his work. guess he made it rich. now dont we all want to be? maybe it was a desperate attempt.
heehee.
clar<3
i haven't really done anything =\
aha.. d freaky pig is removed.
"What will it say on your gravestone?
I don't know, maybe I won't have one. I always liked what Bacon said; 'When I die just put me in a bag and throw me in the gutter.' I quite like that, but I haven't really thought about it. "
i quite like that too. :D this guys interesting..^^
clar<3
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