One Mamut on the beach...
5:00 a.m.
One of Damien Hirst's sculptures can be currently enjoyed in
the garden of the Faena Hotel in Miami: it's a 3-mts tall golden skeleton of a
mamut. "Gone but not Forgotten", done in 2014, was auctioned that
same year to help raise funds for amfAr, which works to eradicate HIV from the
world. The sculpture was sold for 11 million euros, which were destined to
further investigation on the virus.
The artist expressed that the mamut comes from a time and
space we cannot totally understand. In spite of scientific explanations, the
animal has gain a rather mythical status so Hirst tries to express its leyend
and history through the golden paint and crystal embellishment. There's
certainly no life in a group of bones, but the golden painting transforms it
into something else, something joyful, something that will not be forgotten.
Gone but not Forgotten, by Damien Hirst (2014)
Next year will mark the opening of the Faena Forum Miami
Beach, a multidisciplinary space which will house site-specific installations,
performances and debates, under the expert coordination of Ximena Caminos. It
will be a branch of Buenos Aires' Faena Art Center.
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