Damien Hirst -Pharmacy

[strugstu]

Am i missing something here???? Is this art???
Just seen a short film on this piece.....Damien says its art 'because I (Damien) created it and its in an art gallery'

Damien Hirst 'Pharmacy' at the tate modern

what do you think?

I went to see that when the Tate Modern first opened a few years ago and thought it was an interesting installation but not that it was art anymore than his dissected animals in formaldehyde are.

I'm afraid Hurst is right. But it's also unbelievably old hat. Marcel Duchamp exhibited a signed pissoire and called it 'Fountain'. But he did this in 1917, so Hurst is not as iconoclastic as most people think. But he is making truckloadsof money. Tosser.

But Marcel Duchamp was funny, art has to move me in some way, not leave me stone cold

But it's still art, even if it doesn't move you. Jackson Pollock leaves me cold, and 95% of Dali is crap, but I can recognise it as art. Have you seen the Rothko canvasses at the Tate M he did for a hotel? Now that makes me weep. Well, almost.

I know you're right Clarkers (are you new to mumsnet or a name-changer?)

New - have to collect my eldest tyke from pre-school now. Catch you later!

Is this an extension of the overrated (now closed I believe) restaurant called Pharmacy that was "decorated" (can't think of better word) by DH? Load of toss if you ask me. Did you see the paintings he "did", i.e. got a load of artist/art students to do the actual painting but he had the ideas

artistically worthless imo.

put any group of engineers in a room, they could come up with a better solution than that.

and Im an engineer and an artist!

interesting points Clarkers,
I have to say- i am poorly informed on this subject, but like Cam I like to feel moved by the art, whether i love it or hate it.

I dont like his comments either- full of his own self importance.

and arranging the pills by colour is silly!

I hate artists or authors who betray their total lack of understanding of science.

I have to say I don't think much of his stuff. I am not such a fan of this type of intallation anyway. I have seen it and it left me unmoved. I wanted to be inspired but it left me cold. Tracey Emin I have a similar reaction to.

I did see a couple of installations I loved though. Thirty pieces of silver by Cornelia Parker I loved and took lots of students to see. I features thirty circles made up of flattened silver every day items, suspended from the ceiling. Each cirle was made up from thiry silver pieces. I was very clever. Theres a link here \link{http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=26446&searchid=9018\Thirty pieces of silver.

Thirty pieces of silver.

Messed up the link