DAMIEN HIRST at the TATE MODERN, APRIL 2012
DAMIEN HIRST at the TATE MODERN, APRIL 2012 In some ways amazing, awe-inspring and sometimes just evoking disgust (but evoking something), Damien Hirst's (1965 - ) retrospective at the Tate Modern is designed to coincide with Olympic year, perhaps also to summarise where Britart is now at. There's a glass case filled with flies feeding off a cow's head which are born inside maggots and go on to die against an insectocutor, there's a room full of live gigantic butterflies (the butterflies, from Africa and Latin America, only live for three weeks, after that they are all replaced. Some feed on fruit and some on pollen depending on whether they are African or Latin American.), there's the shark in formaldehyde ( The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of someone Living ) and much else. If you haven't thrown up by the time you've left you are probably desensitised. There's also an exhibit called The Black Sun made up of one million or so dea