Video: Patriotic art: British flag from Damien Hirst at the closing of the Olympics
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who watched the closing ceremony Summer Olympics 2012 years in London, he probably drew attention to the huge Flag of the Great Britain, into which the stadium field turned at the time of this event. It turns out that the idea of this metamorphosis also has an author, and this author is Damien Hirst.
Many well-known authors of our time made their efforts to the London Olympics. And we are talking not only about musicians, actors and directors who participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, but also about many other famous people of creative professions. For example, architecture superstar Zaha Hadid developed the project for the Aquatics Center, Banksy created special "Olympic" graffiti.
Damien Hirst is another contemporary cultural genius who turns out to have put his efforts to Olympic events. It turns out that it was he who came up with the idea of turning the stadium field during the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics into the flag of Great Britain.
Those who have not watched the broadcast of this ceremony should be explained that during this large-scale event on the field of the Olympic Stadium, volunteers, holding hands, created sectors that were eventually filled with athletes participating in the Games. Well, the empty "white stripes of the flag" were used by the organizers to create an impromptu scene on them. For example, they were driven by cars with Spice Girls on the roofs, limousines with modern British pop artists, etc.
Hardly at least half of all TV viewers who saw the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games in London know who Damien Hirst is. But on the other hand, they all saw his amazing work - a huge British flag, of which thousands of athletes from 204 countries of the world have become part.
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