28 April 2012
The sort of show that you feel you should go and see, rather than one that you actually want to go and be inspired by. Show stopping creations that shock and woo in equal measures. Concepts with a big budget that get snapped up quicker than you can say sell-out! Some off the stuff makes you sick while other pieces are surprisingly beautiful. The butterfly wing pictures are wondrous and the cabinets of pills strangely hypnotic.
Science Ltd, is the name of Hirst’s art producing capability... this is the factory like resource that churns out the money making creations. I wonder if this where the ‘Hallucinatory Heads’ came from that sit on the top shelf of the cabinets in the Tate gift shop? - £36,800 will get you one of the 50 limited edition skulls that have been painted with streaks of gloss paint in the style of the ‘spin’ paintings. Mind you, that's still cheaper than the £50+ million you would have to shell out for the diamond encrusted platinum model (shown above).
The anatomy of an angel
A thousand years
Hymn - outside Tate Modern
7 out of 10
