"was a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine, and sold for £50,000. The shark had been caught by a commissioned fisherman in Australia and had cost £6,000. The exhibition also included ""In a Thousand Years"". As a result of the show, Hirst was nominated for that year's Turner Prize, but it was awarded to Grenville Davey. Hirst's first major international presentation was in the Venice Biennale in 1993 with the work, ""Mother and Child Divided"", a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines. He curated the show ""Some Went Mad, Some Ran"
"of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. The best-known of these was ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"", a tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case. He has also made ""spin paintings"", created on a spinning circular surface, and ""spot paintings"", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants. In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and"
"bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for ""The Golden Calf"", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In several instances since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised. In one instance, after his sculpture ""Hymn"" was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Hirst was born as Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. He never met his father; his"
"I felt that a part of me was in the piece. I was a bit shocked."" LeKay has stated that he was a friend of Damien Hirst between 1992 and 1994 and shared a mixed show with him. LeKay also stated that Hirst had got other ideas for his work from a “marked-up duplicate copy” of a Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogue, which he had given him. One example was Hirst’s work ""Mother and Child, Divided"" – a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde: ""You have no idea how much he got from this catalogue. The"
"is on page 647—it is a model of a cow divided down the centre, like his piece"", a reference to Hirst's work ""Mother and Child, Divided"", a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde. LeKay also suggests that Hirst copied the idea of ""For the Love of God"" from his work on crystal skulls in 1993, saying, ""I would like Damien to acknowledge that 'John really did inspire the skull and influenced my work a lot.'"" Copyright lawyer Paul Tackaberry reviewed images of LeKay's and Hirst's work and saw no basis for any appropriation rising to the"
"Away"" in 1994 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited ""Away from the Flock"" (a sheep in a tank of formaldehyde). On 9 May, Mark Bridger, a 35-year-old artist from Oxford, walked into the gallery and poured black ink into the tank, and retitled the work ""Black Sheep"". He was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish, and was given two years' probation. The sculpture was restored at a cost of £1,000. When a photograph of ""Away from the Flock"" was reproduced in the 1997 book by Hirst ""I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone,"
"a book ""The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry"" (1991)—not realising this was one place where Dixon's design had been published. In 2007, artist John LeKay, a friend of Damien Hirst between 1992 and 1994, was reported by Dalya Alberge of ""The Times"" to have provided ideas and inspirations for a variety of his later works, including having given him a ""marked-up duplicate copy"" of a Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogue that LeKay had been using as inspiration and supply for his work, noting that ""You have no idea how much he got from this catalogue. The Cow Divided"
"Greek ship, with pieces that range from Ancient Egyptian-alike items to Disney character reproductions, encrusted with shells and corals. Some of Hirst's principal works are as follows. This artwork features a large tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde. The tank in which the shark is floating creates the illusion of the animal being cut into three pieces due to the container looking like three separate sections. The work was created in 1991, and since then, the formaldehyde preserving the shark has slowly eaten away at the animal's body, which shows signs of decay. Hirst says that the formaldehyde surrounding the shark"
"through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire"", driven mad by the constant pursuit. In ""Antony and Cleopatra"", Shakespeare similarly likens Cleopatra's hasty departure from the Actium battlefield to that of a cow chased by a gadfly. More recently, in 1962 the biologist Vincent Dethier wrote ""To Know a Fly"", introducing the general reader to the behaviour and physiology of the fly. Damien Hirst's provocative 1990 artwork, titled ""A Thousand Years"", featured a severed cow's head contained in a glass box with thousands of flies and a bug zapper, showing the life-cycle of the fly as well as the decomposition"
"Hirst. Hirst said, ""It's a very democratic way to sell art and it feels like a natural evolution for contemporary art. Although there is risk involved, I embrace the challenge of selling my work in this way."" The star items were ""The Golden Calf"", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde, and ""The Kingdom"", a preserved tiger shark; other preserved animals included a zebra and a ""unicorn"". The sale included spot and butterfly paintings, many incorporating gold and diamonds. The Gagosian Gallery, who have sold Hirst's work for 12 years, said they would attend to make"
"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the ""Young British Artists"" (or YBA). It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles Saatchi, who sold it in 2004, to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been at least $8 million. However, the title of Don Thompson's book, ""The $12 Million Stuffed Shark:"
"exhibition that attracted considerable media coverage as Hirst's first show in Latin America. In June that year, he exhibited alongside the work of Francis Bacon (""Triptychs"") at the Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, an exhibition that included the vitrine, ""A Thousand Years"" (1990), and four triptychs: paintings, medicine cabinets and a new formaldehyde work entitled ""The Tranquility of Solitude (For George Dyer)"", influenced by Bacon. ""A Thousand Years"" (1990) contains an actual life cycle. Maggots hatch inside a white minimal box, turn into flies, then feed on a bloody, severed cow's head on the floor of a claustrophobic glass vitrine."
"side of the Thames"". The 2009 British-Hungarian film ""The Nutcracker in 3D"" features a scene in which a pet shark is electrocuted in a water tank, which director Andrei Konchalovsky cites as a reference to Hirst's artwork. Hirst's response to those who said that anyone could have done this artwork was, ""But you didn't, did you?"" The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the ""Young British Artists"" (or"
"Cow Divided is on page 647 – it is a model of a cow divided down the centre, like his piece."" Lekay said, ""I would like Damien to acknowledge that 'John really did inspire the skull and influenced my work a lot.'"" Group shows have included Modern Museum of Art, Lisbon, Cabinet Gallery, London and Metropol Gallery, Austria. John LeKay John LeKay (born 1 June 1961) is an English conceptual and installation artist and sculptor, who lives in New York City. In 1993, he began to make skulls covered in crystal: he has accused Damien Hirst of copying this and"
"Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited ""Away from the Flock"" (a sheep in a tank). An artist poured black ink into it, and was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish. The artist's defence was that he thought Hirst would benefit from the publicity and one critic (Tony Parsons) said the artist's action proved that what Damien Hirst does is art. The exhibit was restored at a cost of £1000. A notable case of an unauthorised intervention—which did no damage, yet was still liable for prosecution—occurred at 12.58 p.m. on October 25, 1999, when two artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun"
"bought) Hirst's first major ""animal"" installation, ""A Thousand Years"", consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding on a rotting cow's head. They also staged Michael Landy's ""Market"". At this time, Hirst said, ""I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say 'f off'. But after a while you can get away with things."" 1987 – Damien Hirst and Holden Rowan, Old Court Gallery, Windsor Arts Centre, Windsor, UK –"
"Damien Hirst interviewed LeKay and the transcript appears in the catalogue for the show. They were both represented by the Cohen Gallery. In 1993, inspired by Mayan skulls, he made 25 skulls, using crystal to create a glistening effect: ""When the light hits it, it looks as if it is covered in diamonds."" Initially he used paradichlorobenzene, a substance more often found as a toilet deodoriser. He first showed such a skull at the Cohen Gallery. He subsequently developed this idea, using materials such as soap and wax, artificial diamonds and Swarovski crystals. In 1994, he held an exhibition, ""Delires"
"the collection to life in innovative ways. Quinn's early work was concerned with issues of corporeality, decay and preservation. He experimented with organic and degradable materials including bread, blood, lead, flowers and DNA producing sculpture and installation, including ""Bread Sculptures"" (1988), ""Self"" (1991), ""Emotional Detox"" (1995), ""Garden"" (2000), and ""DNA Portrait of John Sulston"" (2001). In the 2000s, he began to focus on the use of marble, bronze and concrete. The artist explored the body and its extremes through the lens of classical and urban materials; works included ""The Complete Marbles"" (1999 - 2005), ""Alison Lapper Pregnan""t (2004), ""Evolution"" (2005"
"early 1970s, Hurm depicted lively scenes in a naïve manner („Die Arche Noah“, 1973, transl.: Noah's Ark). Save for a few exceptions, in this painting every creature is shown in its proper place, every object is given its realistic shade of colouring. From early on Hurm knew how to lead the viewer's eye through his paintings by his unconventional interpretation of proportions. (Das Paradies, 1972, transl.: Paradise) To date, his Swabian home and its changes over time and seasons is the basic inspiration of many of Hurm's paintings. Prominent subjects are people, houses, cows, horses, meadows and forests, landscapes in"
"Prize should be for paintings. The four artists shown at the gallery—Ella Guru, Mandy McCartin, Paul Harvey and Charles Williams—shared the Stuckist prize. On 17 April 2003, when the Saatchi Gallery opened in new premises at County Hall with a display of Damien Hirst's work, including ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"" (a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine), the Stuckism gallery displayed a stuffed shark in their window. This 148 kg (325 lb) golden hammerhead shark had been caught off Florida in 1989, two years before Hirst's work was made, by Eddie Saunders, who"
"shark in formaldehyde ""the world's most over-rated marine organism"" and attacked the artist for ""functioning like a commercial brand"", making the case that Hirst and his work proved that financial value was now the only meaning that remained for art. Hirst's 2009 show, ""No Love Lost"", of paintings by his own hand, at the Wallace Collection in London, received ""one of the most unanimously negative responses to any exhibition in living memory"". Tom Lubbock of ""The Independent"" called Hirst's work derivative, weak and boring: ""Hirst, as a painter, is at about the level of a not-very-promising, first-year art student."" Rachel"
"front of (and then bought) Hirst's first major ""animal"" installation, ""A Thousand Years"", consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head. (The installation was later a notable feature of the ""Sensation"" exhibition.) Saatchi became not only Hirst's main collector, but also the main sponsor for other YBAs–a fact openly acknowledged by Gavin Turk. The contemporary art market in London had dramatically collapsed in mid-1990 due to a major economic recession, and many commercial contemporary galleries had gone out of business. Saatchi had until this time collected mostly American and German contemporary art,"
"legal level of a copyright infringement. In 2010, in ""3:AM Magazine"" and in ""The Jackdaw"", Charles Thomson argued that there are 15 cases where Hirst plagiarised the work of others, including his enlarged version of an anatomical torso model, ""Hymn"" (1999) which Thomson presents alongside a comparable John LeKay's anatomical torso model from Carolina Science, ""Yin and Yang"" (1990), and Hirst's ""In Nomine Patris"" [""In the Name of the Father""] (2005), which presents a split-open crucified sheep in a tank of formaldehyde, after John LeKay's comparably posed split-open crucified sheep, entitled ""This is My Body, This is My Blood"" (1987)"
"or awkwardness"" and a ""vacant"" prospect. Other notable artists associated with neo-conceptualism in the UK include Martin Creed, Liam Gillick, Bethan Huws, Simon Patterson, Simon Starling and Douglas Gordon. 1991: Charles Saatchi funds Damien Hirst and the next year in the Saatchi Gallery exhibits his ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"", a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine. 1993: Vanessa Beecroft holds her first performance in Milan, Italy, using models to act as a second audience to the display of her diary of food. 1999: Tracey Emin is nominated for the Turner Prize. Part of"
"In 2005, Černý created Shark, an image of Saddam Hussein in a tank of formaldehyde. The work was presented at the Prague Biennale 2 that same year. The work is a direct parody of a 1991 work by Damien Hirst, ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"". In 2006, the work was banned in Middelkerke, Belgium, in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, and also in the German town of Büdelsdorf. With respect to the Belgian situation, the mayor of that town, Michel Landuyt, admitted that he was worried that the exhibit could ""shock people, including Muslims"" in a year"
"in 2004 to Steven A. Cohen for an estimated $8 million. Its technical specifications are: ""Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution, 213 × 518 × 213 cm."" ""The New York Times"" in 2007 gave the following description of the artwork: Mr. Hirst often aims to fry the mind (and misses more than he hits), but he does so by setting up direct, often visceral experiences, of which the shark remains the most outstanding. In keeping with the piece's title, the shark is simultaneously life and death incarnate in a way you don't quite grasp until you see it, suspended"
"by his 2000 LSD ""spot painting."" In October 2014, Hirst exhibited big scale capsules, pills and medicines at the Paul Stolper Gallery titled: ‘Schizophrenogenesis’ In April 2016, a study published in ""Analytical Methods"" claimed Hirst's preserved carcasses leaked formaldehyde gas above legal limits at Tate Modern; however, this study was shown to be flawed. In 2017 he organised with Pinault Foundation a solo exhibition, in Venice contemporarily to the Biennale in two places in the city: Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. The title is ""Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable"", purporting to present ancient treasures from a sunken"
"Cecily Brown. The uptown gallery maintained its commitment to historical exhibitions by showing monumental sculptures by Miró, Calder and Moore. Andy Warhol was exhibited at both New York galleries, in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, including exhibitions of his Rorschach Paintings, Camouflage Paintings, Late Hand-Painted Paintings, Oxidation Paintings and the Diamond Dust Shadow Paintings. In 1996, The Damien Hirst exhibition ""No Sense of Absolute Corruption,"" was the first exhibition in America to show Hirst’s animals in formaldehyde tanks, a controversial series of the artist’s oeuvre. Gagosian opened a location in Beverly Hills designed by architect Richard Meier in 1995."
"an infant dragon preserved in formaldehyde proving the existence of dragons, although this was later proven to be a hoax. It also quoted Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth on Pope John Paul II's battles with Satan, and ran a story on the copyright dispute between ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" and a German erotic periodical also named ""O"". In February 1989 ""WWN"" published real, graphic photos on its front page of the post autopsied body of executed serial killer Ted Bundy. Eddie Clontz, then the managing editor, defended his decision to run the photos claiming that he hoped such images would"
"site, and the cows are currently located in a real field. On their site in a public park, the ""Cows"" have suffered many indignities – though it could be argued that these were consistent with their conceptual origins. Sometimes they have simply been vandalised, while at other times they have been painted pink, become zebras, become skeletal, had pyjama bottoms added, have been beheaded in the style of Damien Hirst, have acquired BSE (mad cow disease) graffiti, had one of the calves kidnapped (with ransom notes to the local papers). One of the ""Cows"" briefly enjoyed the services of a"
"a bird doesn’t believe in. Is it missing the process of a feedback with its ‹own›"". Other animal works include ""Loverfinches"" (1992-1994), ""Aquarium"" (1996), ""The Belgian Problem"" (2007), ""Singing Canaries Mobile"" (2009), and, with Rosemarie Trockel, ""Mosquito Bus"" (1996), ""Addina"" (1997), ""Bee House"" (1999), ""Silverfish House"" (1999) and ""Eyeball: a House for Pigeons, People, and Rats"" (2000). On 18 June 2014 the 31-meter-high observation tower Vitra Slide Tower in Weil am Rhein was inaugurated. Höller is represented by Air de Paris, Paris; Massimo de Carlo, Milan; and Gagosian Gallery, London, New York, and Los Angeles. For the seventh commission in"
"Carl Freedman Carl Freedman (born 1965) is the founder of Carl Freedman Gallery (formerly Counter Gallery). He previously worked as a writer and a curator. Saatchi arrived at ""Gambler"" in a green Bentley and, according to Freedman, was immediately impressed by (and then bought) Hirst's first major ""animal"" installation, ""A Thousand Years"", consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head. (The installation was later a notable feature of the ""Sensation"" exhibition.) At this early stage, Freedman was financing the production of Hirst's vitrines, and has commented that not many people attended these"
"""unconventional dominances of colours"" (Blumenstrauß mit gelbem Vorhang, 1989, transl.: bouquet of flowers with yellow curtain). Hurm also experimented with the colours red, white, blue, and brown, and placed them as colour filters over his motifs (Blauer Stadtteil, 1988, transl.: Blue suburb). In the 1990s, Hurm's colours developed a life of ""delimitation"". were detached from their subjects. Colours enveloped groups (Grüne Vögel bei den Kühen, 1999, transl.: green birds with cows) set expressive, high-contrast emphases. Hurm transitioned to abstraction reminiscent of cave paintings. (Tierherde im Winter, 2000, transl.: herd of cattle/animals in winter). In the 1990s, Karl Hurm increasingly integrated"