Video: Anatomy of a mythical equid by Damien Hirst
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Someone may not believe in Pegasus or a unicorn, but they, in fact, exist! And these mythical equids exist thanks to the creative imagination of the most famous artist of our time Damien Hirst … His anatomical sculptures Legend and Myth are now on display in the courtyard of the English Chatsworth House Museum.
Damien Hirst is the main troublemaker in contemporary art. Some of his works make you admire his artistic talent sincerely, and some just give you a reason to shrug your shoulders in bewilderment. On site pages Kulturologia.ru we told you about skateboards from Damien Hirst, about a precious children's skull from this author and an Audi A1 car, which he hand-painted for charity.
The new works of Damien Hirst, two sculptures with the names Legend and Myth, as well as all the rest of the work of this Briton, on the one hand, amaze with their power, on the other, they are surprising and even a little shocking.
The sculpture titled Legend depicts a winged horse, Pegasus, while the sculpture Myth depicts a unicorn. It would seem nothing out of the ordinary. But it was not there! It's Damien Hirst! From one side, each of the above sculptures looks usually (white, smooth stone), from the other, you can see the detailed anatomy of mythological equids - bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, veins and arteries, internal organs.
Hirst himself explains the idea of these two of his sculptures: “I want to show that science lowers religion to the ground, exposes it. And, if you cut the mythological creatures, it turns out that the unicorn and Pegasus are no different from the most ordinary, mortal horses. But, at the same time, the myth, like never before, is becoming a reality!"
Damien Hirst's sculptures Legend and Myth are displayed on one of the lawns of the park around the Chatsworth House Museum in Derbyshire, one of England's largest "treasure houses", which contains the greatest works of art from centuries past and present. These mythological equids will stay there until October 30, 2011, after which they will move under the roof of one of the world's museums.
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