Currently looking at work by Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Sarah Lucas could be one of my new fav artists. I've been reading and looking at work in a book called In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, published by Tate. It features a show that Angus Fairhust, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas put together in 2004. The show might reinforce a notion I've had that similar artists, working separately though in proximity, create a charged body of work when they are working toward a singular show. The energy created when artists are keeping close tabs on each other and are in and out of each other's studios, while working toward a show together, seems to generate good art across the board. This is just a thought, or, something I'd like to believe. I am not even sure that the above artists actually worked that way, though the show seems to have created a fairly unified body of work, or work that complements each other. Maybe they were just similar artists that a good curator pulled together for a show. I don't know. The link I'm providing doesn't provide a great gallery of images. There might be better ones out there...
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/inagaddadavida/gallery.htm
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good stuff. i'd never heard of sarah lucas before. i like a lot of that generation of british artists...except i don't really like tracy emin.
i mostly love damien hurst for his titles. like his autobiography: "i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now."
whenever i think "what do i want? what do i really really want, ultimately?" i think about that title haha.
and "the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living" oh boi.
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