Sunday, March 22, 2009

Hirst’s Shark Tank



Hirst’s Shark Tank, 1994, Lego
Damien Hirst (b 1965) is one of the most successful British artists of all time. The artist and his work co-exist as a brand. Hirst’s Shark Tank is based on The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a Tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde representing the physical possibility of death immortalised. The first of their Lego works, The Little Artists made Hirst’s Shark Tank in 1994 whilst still at art school, using a shark from a Pirate Lego set.

Retrieved form Seed Gallery's website: http://www.seedgallery.co.nz/content/1066d8c5-d966-41ce-8dd0-81fe61090c01.html

I have also taken the tank from behind. It is surprising that Lego already had a shark figure.

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