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Indepth Arts News:
"SENSATION: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection"
1999-10-02 until 2000-01-09
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY,
USA United States of America
A defining exhibition of the last decade-that includes approximately ninety paintings,
sculpture, photographs, and installations by forty-two artists, will be presented
for the first time in the United States at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The
exhibition, which attracted a record number of visitors and created considerable
controversy in its inaugural presentation at the Royal Academy in London, will be
on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art from October 2, 1999 through January 9,
2000. It is the only presentation planned in this country at this time.
Among the forty two artists represented is Damien Hirst, perhaps Britains
best-known artist of this generation, who is now recognized throughout the world
for his work comprising sections of animals, such as sharks, lambs, and cows,
preserved and presented in sealed, formaldehyde-filled, glass containers. Also
included will be work by the brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, who explore a
complex and bizarre world of sexual identity, transmutation, and commercialism
with their child-like multi-bodied and multi-body-part figures. Jenny Saville,
whose large, almost abstract paintings of overwhelmingly fleshy female forms
recall for the viewer both Rubens and Lucien Freud, challenge societys notion of
the ideal female form. Among the other artists whose work appears in SENSATION
are Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas, Ron Mueck, Chris Ofili, Fiona Rae, and Rachel
Whiteread.
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