‎HIRST (Damien).‎
‎Life, Death, and Love.‎

‎ Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2007, gr. in-8°, 50 pp, 18 illustrations en couleurs, broché, couv. illustrée à rabats, bon état. Texte en anglais et en norvégien, Edition originale‎

Reference : 107360

‎The book features an interview with the Artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photographs of multi-faceted - and controversial - modern artist Damien Hirst's works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection are collected here, as he explores the great topics of "Life, Death, and Love" ("Livet, døden og kjærleiken"). This exhibition, held at the Kunsthuset Kabuso in Norway, was an overview celebrating Hirst's body of work. As such, it was not widely known outside of Scandinavia, making this exhibition catalog a very rare item. The exhibition consisted of various well-known pieces from several of Hirst's recent (90s-present) shows, including "The Martyrdom of Saint Peter" (depicted on the cover of the catalog), "Adam and Eve Exposed," and the infamous bisected cows of "Mother and Child Divided." From the Publisher: "In collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Kabuso arts centre presents a broad exhibition of work by Damien Hirst. In line with Damien Hirst's ambitious art, this exhibition has a title that comprises truly large themes: life, death and love. Hirst himself has claimed that there are four important consorts in his life: art, love, religion and science. His artistic project is to seek connections - contrasts and dilemmas - between life and death, love and desire, machines and human beings, art and popular culture, beauty and gruesomeness, irony and seriousness, and religion and science. By staging juxtapositions of these themes, he creates a highly contrasting and explosive art that confronts the public in a way many find beyond the bounds of decency. The works of Damien Hirst that form the basis of this exhibition, all of which are from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, reflect his artistic developments. And cumulatively, the installations, sculptures and paintings presented here offer an important overview of the main formalistic and thematic thoughts of the artist during the past decade." ‎