Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Damien Hirst: A Thousand Years, 1990


Damien Hirst describes his work as a life cycle within a box  - Creating something that is aesthetically successful and that deepens peoples understanding of life and death. 

 “your whole life could be like points in space, like nearly nothing,” Hirst provokes a reconsideration of how we respond to death in the works; the fate of the flies at the hands of a machine that is commonplace even in vegetarian restaurants, is rendered uncomfortable by the gallery setting. Of the thematic prevalence of death in his work, Hirst explains: “You can frighten people with death or an idea of their own mortality, or it can actually give them vigour."

http://www.damienhirst.com/a-thousand-years




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