BAROCK - Art, Science, Faith and Technology in Contemporary Ege
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Damien Hirst
Black Sun
2004
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Courtesy White Cube
Damien Hirst is one of the most popular and controversial artists of our time. The artist’s work is inspired by the contradictions of post-industrial society, the eternal sublimation of decay and death as well as the ambiguity of technical-scientific progress. His working method tends towards the sensational, with a perverse fascination with provocation. Over the years, Hirst has created an unmistakable style, notable for an aggressive and representational vocabulary with a strongly emotional and visual impact. Heaven, a monumental shark immersed in formaldehyde, evokes the life cycle and the existential conflict which people are compelled to confront. The artist stages the contrast between the modern cult of wellness and the inexorable decline of the body, between frailty and strength, between aspirations to immortality and the inevitability of death. Tanks containing animals, whole or cut up (Black Sheep, Divided) and preserved in formaldehyde, insects preserved in the reassuring frame of the artwork, flies (Black Sun) or butterflies frozen in their last flight (Beautiful, Beautiful You), provocatively evoke the tradition, from the reprise of iconographic scheme of the vanitas and the Memento Mori (Karma) to models taken from art history (Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain) with an acceptance of the lugubrious and hallucinatory side of Baroque. Hirst’s works emphasize the spectacular aspects of horror, generating a twofold impulse of attraction-repulsion. They create an oppressive and anguished atmosphere suspended between the dreamlike and the visionary, in an attempt to embody the transience of life, while at the same time proclaiming the victory of science over the flesh, overturning the Gospel sense of the end, giving the relationship between art, science and religion the sense of a challenge. They are the contrasting and desecrating expressions of the last afflatus of a Romantic, metaphorical artist translated into the concerns of contemporary society.
In a way I quite like that, bringing it right back round again. [...] In a way, they are clichés. But clichés are only clichés because they’re ...
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