Damien Hirst Goes to Kiev
How do you get an art shark to the Ukraine? Give him a retrospective. Next Saturday, Kiev’s PinchukArtCentre (funded by billionaire oligarch Victor Pinchuk) will welcome visitors to an exhibition of approximately 100 works created by Damien Hirst between 1990 and 2008. The show is called “Requiem,” which could be interpreted as a somber nod to Contemporary Art as We Knew It but is more likely a reference to the common name for Carcharhinidae, the family of sharks that Hirst prefers for pickling.
The requiem sharks will be represented in Kiev by “Death Explained” (2008) and “Death Denied” (2007), the latter a bisected and dissected tiger shark split between two vitrines.
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