The Complete Vitrines

The Complete Vitrines

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For the first time, all of British artist Damien Hirst's signature vitrine works are documented in a comprehensive publication, spanning twenty years of Hirst's working practice. Key works such as The Acquired Inability to Escape (1991) and A Thousand Years (1990) are reproduced in full color and accompanied by text by Rudi Fuchs. A short essay by Hirst's long-time collaborator, the late Gordon Burn, is also included. Text from the artist himself gives further explanation to the works. Gordon Burn writes: The fragility of existence was Hirst's big theme from the beginning. The action of the world on things. It's why he puts things behind glass - in big steel and glass cases: to hold off the inevitable decay and corruption; as part of a futile effort to preserve them. Francis Bacon said repeatedly that he was committed to 'the brutality of fact.' Echoing this Damien Hirst has said he likes 'the violence of inanimate objects.' Typically this has meant everyday objects - Formica-ed tables, office chairs, and ashtrays -being bifurcated and mutilated in predetermined, precise ways - encased in one of Hirst's signature twin-celled vitrines.

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