Palimpsest I

With A Little Help From His Replicators

Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) - Untitled, 2002

Eric Doeringer - Maurizio Couldn't Be Here, 2005

The Little Artists - Maurizio Cattelan's La Ballata di Trotsky (The Ballad of Trotsky), 1996


'You see, all art has now become completely a game by which man distracts himself; and you may say it has always been like that, but now it's entirely a game. And I think that that is the way things have changed, and what is fascinating now is that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to be any good at all.'

Francis Bacon

When Artists Flap Their Wings In A Gallery

The Little Artists - Damien Hirst's Butterfly Paintings

Damien Hirst - The Explosion - Exalted, 2006


'I am a deeply superficial person.'

Andy Warhol

Room To Move

Rachel Whiteread's plaster cast of the interior space of a room was first shown in 1990.

Rachel Whiteread - Ghost, 1990

Dirty Deeds! Re-done Dirt Cheap!

Chapmans' Dead Guys ("The Little Artists)

Jake and Dinos Chapman - Great Deeds Against the Dead, 1994

Francisco Goya - Great Deeds! Against the Dead!, 1810s

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Museum

'Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 (see below), was first shown in the Saatchi Gallery and later nominated for the Turner Prize. The work features a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.

It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.'

Image courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery ("The Little Artists").

Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991