Museum Of Fine arts artist The man who frames sharks: Damien Hirst

Museum Of Fine arts artist The man who frames sharks: Damien Hirst

In the Museum Oceanographic of Monaco, the British artist exhibits his most famous works. Someone of them use big animals preserved in chemists

“ Cornucopia “, big retrospective exhibition of the British artist Damien Hirst inaugurated in the Museum Of Fine arts artist of Monaco, turns out to be the whole event. Seldom an artistic sample needs such a deployment of hoist and cranes to move, with character of exclusivity, sixty pieces that compose the sample that will celebrate, from April 2, the centenary of the Monegasque museum.

The polemic Hirst is considered to be one of the most well-known contemporary and venerated artists, after imposing his style and his rules on the market of the art throughout the whole decade. “, on having created this museum, prince Alberto I wanted to assemble the art and the sciences. With the time, we have forgotten the artistic side. With this exhibition, the museum registers in his time ”, says the director of the museum, Robert Calcagno, on having justified the decision to be provided with the British artist to celebrate the century of his institution.

Throughout last three weeks, the museum has turned into a real fortitude. The responsible team of moving the works of Hirst looks over the safety of every monumental work.
During the assembly, the rooms were covered by thick black veils that did not allow to see to the onlookers the development of the works. On the night of last Saturday it did his the masterpiece of the exhibition arrived: a shark tiger immersed in formol, I fix in his crystal sarcofagus. With 33 tons of weight, the workpeople of the museum needed 21 hours to locate it in his emplacement, to the center of the principal room. Before the formal invitation, any access to the cameras had been prohibited the press.

Hirst travelled in several occasions to the principality to continue closely the advance in the facilities of his works. “ He determined the place for each of his works ”, pointed out Calcagno, after confirming that the British artist also is responsible for the comisariado of the sample. “ He wanted to deal personally with the project, since he is a man fascinated by the natural history. He felt much more comfortable than in a museum of art, since he usually afraid of them a little. He thinks that they are done for the dead artists ”, added the director of the museum, who waits for 400 thousand visitors in his centenary institution.