Art | Culture | Ideas
FAD Magazine, 2021 Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification to emerge on the other side as totems to an artist’s fascination with the grim and inescapable fact of mortality. More of the same, you might say. And how wrong you would…
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Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 26 April – 14 June 2013 The years have been kind to Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative, he has made a living as an artist and not sold out, and the ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk and why…
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an extract from The Value Industry, chapter V Damien Hirst is one of the great artists of the 20th Century, but the value industry has seen to it that hardly anyone would concede it. The very mythology that drove Hirst’s prices up has been his downfall: the idea of the superstar artist, born into nothing, growing…
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