Damien Hirst at Tate Britain
When
22 June 2009 -
23 August 2009
10:00-17:50
Where
Tate Britain
Cost
Free
Age Restrictions
N/A
For information on the late 2009 Damien Hirst exhibitions running at The Wallace Collection and Tate Modern, click on the link below.
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An exhibition featuring work by some of the major names on the contemporary art scene is on show at Tate Britain. Unusually, this exhibition gives you free access to see artists like Damien Hirst at Tate Britain, who will be exhibiting alongside the Chapman brothers, Simon Patterson and Mark Dion. The show, entitled BP Classified, also gives you the chance to see some major new acquisitions by the Tate.
Life Without You
The Classified exhibition focuses on how artists use categories and ordering systems in their work, reflecting how we all have an innate need to categorise our lives. Some of the highlights include The Acquired Inability to Escape and Life Without You, both by Damien Hirst. At Tate Britain these are part of a wave of new acquisitions for the gallery. These include some of the earliest work by Damien Hirst such as The Acquired Inability to Escape. This is one of the first pieces in which he used the cabinet-display format. It shows an office desk and chair locked inside a glass box.
McDonalds and Other Icons
Another major addition to the Tate Collection, which will be on show during this free exhibition, is the Chapman Family Collection by Jake and Dinos Champan. The work is a series of African masks which have been reformed to include famous iconography from McDonalds and other multinational companies. It challenges the hypocrisy that some objects represent. The BP Exhibition includes a variety of art forms, from small sculptures to a life-size installation by Damien Hirst. At Tate Britain you can see the artist's work Pharmacy, a reconstruction of a real pharmacy which fills an entire room.
Wider Desires
The show is a significant collection of work as it allows visitors to view an entire exhibition dedicated to how artists construct and deconstruct meaning in their work. This in turn reflects on our own desires to order and categorise - this show is, after all, in a gallery that has collected the works together. As well as Damien Hirst, at Tate Britain you can see work from Phillip Allen, Gillian Carnegie, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Ceal Floyer, Peter Peri, Fiona Rae and Simon Starling.
London Underground
While some of the work will be familiar to regulars at Tate Britain, some has never be shown in the gallery before including work made-ready, Les Baux-de-Provence by Simon Starling. There's also a scuplture by Rebecca Warren entitled In the Bois. It's a wall-mounted sculpture split into three parts that challenges the idea of what a display should be. Other pieces on show include Great Bear by Simon Patterson, which is a rearranged version of the London Underground map. Mark Dion is also exhibiting his piece Tate Thames, a collection of objects found on the banks of the Thames.
You can see Damien Hirst at Tate Britain and other artists in the BP Classified exhibition from 10am - 5.50pm, 22nd June - 23rd August 2009. Admission is free.
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