Anatomy of an Angel
2008
Carrara marble, a sculpture that blurs lines between the classical and the scientific.
Questions
What connotations does the angelic form communicate?
The artist uses the classical pose to what purpose?
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What does the artist communicate to the audience through this dissection?
Why are we encouraged to look beneath?
Wretched War – The Dream is Dead
2007
Bronze, a statue of a pregnant woman that has been decapitated.
Questions
What has happened to this piece?
A statement is being made but about what and why?
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What effect does the decapitation of this piece have?
Observe, Identify, Reason, Analyse, Measure, Modify and Reproduce
2000
Glass, stainless steel, steel, brass, silicone rubber, air blowers and plastic balls, a sculpture that encases white balls being blown by an air pump.
Questions
How does the artist engage with the audience through this kinetic sculpture?
What emotional changes occur between stillness and movement?
What might be the reason for siting this sculpture in this room?
Space, Time, Form, Matter, Substance, Change and Motion
2000
Glass, stainless steel, steel, brass, silicone rubber, air blowers and plastic balls, a sculpture that encases coloured balls being blown by an air pump.
Questions
How does this piece relate to the Colour Space Paintings?
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What does the viewer gain from being able to see the inner workings of these sculptures?
When you remember this work how do you picture it?
Death or Glory
2001
Glass, steel, aluminium, skull, rubber tubing, compressors, ping-pong balls, paper and ink.
Questions
A skull references death, what do the plastic eyeballs reference?
What is the glass forcing the viewer to do?
How does Hirst integrate his views on death within this piece?
What Goes Up Must Come Down
1994
Plexiglass, hairdryer and ping -pong ball, a sculpture that produces the effect of a ball floating in mid-air.
Questions
How can the unseen be viewed as an essential part of this artwork?
What could the plastic ball be reference to in this work?
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Hirst references scientific research throughout his work, create a piece to complement this
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