3/1/2023 0 Comments Ancient space wreckHirst’s other solo exhibitions include Qatar Museums Authority, ALRIWAQ Doha (2013-2014) Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (2010) Oceanographic Museum, Monaco (2010) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008) Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005) Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2004), amongst others. In 2012, Tate Modern, London presented a major retrospective survey of Hirst’s work in conjunction with the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Since 1987, over 90 solo Damien Hirst exhibitions have taken place worldwide, and he has been included in over 300 group shows. ![]() And, in 2013, authorities came across a nearly intact Roman ship resting at a. Through work that includes the iconic shark in formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) and For the Love of God (2007), a platinum cast of a skull set with 8,601 flawless pavé-set diamonds, he investigates and challenges contemporary belief systems, and dissects the uncertainties at the heart of human experience. Found at a depth of 230 feet, the wreck held a trove of amphorae filled with wine dated to the second century B.C.E. Since the late 1980s, Hirst has used a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the complex relationships between art, beauty, religion, science, life and death. Damien Hirst lives and works in London and Gloucester. ![]() The show is commonly acknowledged to have been the launching point not only for Hirst, but for a generation of British artists. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989, and whilst in his second year, he conceived and curated the group exhibition, ‘Freeze’. Exceptional in scale and scope, the exhibition tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the ‘Unbelievable’ (Apistos in the original Koine Greek), and presents what was discovered of its precious cargo: the impressive collection of Aulus Calidius Amotan – a freed slave better known as Cif Amotan II – which was destined for a temple dedicated to the sun.ĭamien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. ![]() The exhibition is displayed across 5,000 square meters of museum space and marks the first time that Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection, are both dedicated to a single artist.ĭamien Hirst’s most ambitious and complex project to date, ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ has been almost ten years in the making. It is the first major solo exhibition dedicated to Damien Hirst in Italy since the 2004 retrospective at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples (“The Agony and Ecstasy”) and is curated by Elena Geuna, curator of the monographic shows dedicated to Rudolf Stingel (2013) and Sigmar Polke (2016) presented at Palazzo Grassi. ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’. Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
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