Art Euthanasia: The Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin Burial Ground
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These must be the skips they’re using in Dubai on those colossal hotels. A 600 cubic meter, black steel-framed, transparent paneled ‘bin’ is presently rather empty. Well unless you are fond of work by Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Fiona Banner, Gillian Wearing or Gary Hume. As you enter the space in the South London Gallery the art tomb dominates. At the other end of the art aquarium there’s a platform accessed by that classic, fire exit staircase. Lemmings would no doubt queue up at this sacrificial podium. And Landy adds to his scrapping ceremony only entitling himself, high priest of art destruction. He has had to appoint an altar boy to perform the drop when he’s not around though.
read more at: http://b-uncut.com/blog/2010/02/03/art-euthanasia/
read more at: http://b-uncut.com/blog/2010/02/03/art-euthanasia/
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