International big hitters on show
This is the first time in Brazil that that works by some of the biggest names in international contemporary art have come together in one exhibition. ‘In the Name of the Artists’, a collection from Oslo’s Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, has taken over a year to produce, and the result is set to be both intense and thought-provoking.
British artist Damien Hirst is the only one of the 51 artists who doesn’t live in the USA, and his controversial installations are set to be the highlight of the exhibition, set up in prime position on the ground floor of the expansive Bienal building. Perhaps the best-known of Hirst’s works, Mother and Child Divided, which had its first presentation at the Venice Biennale in 1993, is a series of glass tanks, containing two halves of a cow and a calf, each bisected and preserved in formaldehyde. The dark, dead-fly-encrusted painting Leukemia will also be there, just one of a series of fly-coated canvases that were all named after diseases.
There are more than 200 works on display, from Cindy Sherman’s conceptual photographs to Jeff Koons’s Dolphin – an inflatable toy dolphin suspended in mid air by a bright yellow chain. Don’t miss Tom Sachs’s postmodern message in Nutsy’s McDonald’s – a critique of McDonald’s cultural imperialism.
Parque do Ibirapuera
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Date 30 Sep 2011- 4 Dec 2011
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