Sentences with phrase «formaldehyde shark tanks»

Is it just us or is it a little ironic that Damien Hirst is showing at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, especially since included is one of his famous formaldehyde shark tanks (although this current specimen, a great white was apparently already dead, unlike the tiger shark that rocketed him to fame in 1992)?

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The Big Blue is completed by, and turns full - circle with, Heaven, a shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde that follows Hirst's iconic 1991 piece, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; the sharks have a special frisson, their sleek, forward motion elegantly sus - pended in death in blue formaldehyde seas.

These works are glass tanks of formaldehyde with organic specimens, such as Hirst's ominous shark in Myth Explored, Explained, Exploded (1993 — 99).

In 1992, the Saatchi Gallery displayed the ground breaking show Young British Artists in which Hirst exhibited Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, consisting of a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.

Young British Artists group exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, who commission The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in a tank of formaldehyde.

In 1991, Saatchi, an advertising mogul, commissioned Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a taxidermied 14 - foot tiger shark suspended in a tank filled with formaldehyde.

The Big Blue is completed by, and turns full - circle with, Heaven, a shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde that follows Hirst's iconic 1991 piece, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; the sharks have a special frisson, their sleek, forward motion elegantly suspended in death in blue formaldehyde seas.

Examples include: My Bed (1999, Saatchi Collection), by Tracey Emin (b. 1963), which consisted of her own unmade bed complete with stained sheets, slippers, stained underwear and other personal detritus; The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), comprising a glass tank containing a shark preserved in formaldehyde, by Damien Hirst (b. 1965).

The tank pieces incorporate dead and sometimes dissected animals - cows, sheep or the shark - preserved in formaldehyde, suspended in death.

In 2003, the Saatchi Gallery re-opened at County Hall with a Damien Hirst retrospective, which included the exhibition of his refurbished piece, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in a tank of formaldehyde.