Jul 16, 2007
damian thirst backlash
Via Wooster Collective, Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night in response to the Damien Hirst’s “For The Love of God” diamond skull exhibition.
The “For the Love of God” prank was created using 6522 Swarovski crystals
and took Laura, the artist, a month to create.
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‘Damien Hirst trips over a diamond the size of his head and dies’ PIEK! 2007
Irony and death are two of a number recurring motifs not only in PIEK!’s work but also in art history in general, and in this special edition PIEK! has introduced it into another area of their oeuvre.
The technique applied is simple, but the outcome implies complex ideas about mortality and the history of mankind, and although these works deny a specific anthropological or historical reading, the results are compelling, being celebratory and seductive, as well as ominous and haunting.
http://www.piek.com/ned/werk/damien/
Jul 16th, 2007
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