Pharmacy London
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2024
Steidl Verlag
978-3-86930-991-0 (ISBN)
Steidl Verlag
978-3-86930-991-0 (ISBN)
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In 2005 Damien Hirst began photographing every dispensing pharmacy in the Greater London area. Shooting both the individual pharmacists behind their counters and the exterior views of the city’s 1,856 chemists, the project took over a decade to complete. The images are brought together in their entirety in this extraordinary ten-volume artist’s book, which presents a portrait of the city through the people and places that prescribe the medicines we take on a habitual and daily basis.
Hirst’s career-long obsession with the minimalist aesthetics employed by pharmaceutical companies—the cool colors and simple geometric forms—first manifested in his series of Medicine Cabinets, conceived in 1988 while still at Goldsmiths College. For his 1992 installation Pharmacy Hirst recreated an entire chemist within the gallery space, stating: “I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, with some sort of hierarchy within it. [Pharmacy] is also like a contemporary museum. In a hundred years it will look like an old apothecary.” Pharmacy London similarly embodies the artist’s realization of an “idea of a moment in time.” The publication also, however, reads as a distilled expression of Hirst’s continuing belief in the near-religious role medicine plays in our society.
Limited edition of 750 boxed sets
Hirst’s career-long obsession with the minimalist aesthetics employed by pharmaceutical companies—the cool colors and simple geometric forms—first manifested in his series of Medicine Cabinets, conceived in 1988 while still at Goldsmiths College. For his 1992 installation Pharmacy Hirst recreated an entire chemist within the gallery space, stating: “I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, with some sort of hierarchy within it. [Pharmacy] is also like a contemporary museum. In a hundred years it will look like an old apothecary.” Pharmacy London similarly embodies the artist’s realization of an “idea of a moment in time.” The publication also, however, reads as a distilled expression of Hirst’s continuing belief in the near-religious role medicine plays in our society.
Limited edition of 750 boxed sets
Born in Bristol in 1965, British artist Damien Hirst employs a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the relationships between art, religion, science, life and death. Iconic works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) and For the Love of God (2007). Hirst won the Turner Prize in 1995.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Göttingen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 440 x 294 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Schlagworte | Apotheken • Damien Hirst • Hirst • London |
| ISBN-10 | 3-86930-991-1 / 3869309911 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-86930-991-0 / 9783869309910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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