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Article: Damien Hirst. (Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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Damien Hirst keeps turning out variations on his grisly menagerie, extrapolating on the idea of death-as-sculpture with a parade of preserved sharks, lambs, cows, and their various body parts. Some of this work is spectacularly morbid: imagine Haim Steinbach and Jeffrey Dahmer collaborating on site-specific pieces for a municipal zoo. But Hirst is ultimately concerned less with instilling horror than with probing what remains of our capacity to be shocked. Tracing a circuit of denial and sham, his work performs a metaphysical autopsy on the corpse of visceral experience.
Compared to most of his shows, Hirst's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles was intimately ...
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The Independent - London;
June 3, 2008 ;
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...If you thought Damien Hirst's pickled animals had lost ... of a mounting controversy in Los Angeles, after being given its own ... stands a few feet in front of Hirst's 1994 Away From the Flock ... for an hour in April after Hirst's sheep sprang a leak. Across ...
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