Damien Hirst is an English artist, art collector and entrepreneur. His work is known to represent some type of human condition, mainly life or death. Although his work is very different from art that I have viewed, it is creative and intriguing in its own way. One of his more famous works known as the Pharmacy which is a room-sized installation meant to represent not only a real pharmacy but also life. The room contains bottles and prescription drugs, along with four bottles that are filled with a blue, red yellow and green liquid placed on a counter. The four bottles are meant to represent the four elements, earth, air fire and water.
In this particular piece of work we also find an insect-o-cutor, Damien believes that the most important aspect of this particular item is that it symbolizes some type of god. A god that kills without any mercy, emotion or choice.
Other items in the installation are a desk which is meant to convey a message that this is a real pharmacy. A cabinet with bottles meant to represent bodies, or society, stools with honeycomb placed on top which made to represent a non-human world and is meant to attract flies to be killed in the insect-o-cutor. Lastly there is medicine which is made to represent dreams.
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