Damien Hirst Cornucopia visit? Yes you can at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco where Damien’s exhibition runs until the end of September 2010.
The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco hosts the Damien Hirst Cornucopia this summer and what a setting it is for one of the worlds top modern art phenomenon. The Oceanographic Museum is an iconic building in itself, let Damien Hirst loose and it takes on even grandeur proportions.
From the moment you approach the building it is clear that Damien Hirst has stamped his mark as your attention is immediately grabbed by the huge sculpture by the entrance which is synonymous with so many science classrooms, it’s the figure of a man part covered in skin part exposed to reveal entrails and more.
Enter the building and in front of you in the principal ground floor room the menacing shark in formaldehyde tank which first brought Damien Hirst to the attention of the public waits with jaws open and teeth threatening. Turn left into the main room and towards the end you will see the equally famous divided sheep.
There are many other gems, literally (Damien’s huge presentations of Rubies , Emeralds and other precious stones are on display), as you make your way round what is a majestic museum dominated as usual by the fascinating collection acquired by Jacques Cousteau, the Monaco Royal family and numerous other scientists and explorers from an age gone by when the world and the sea in particular was little known. Vast collections of "beasts" from the deep are hung from the ceiling, such as the huge blue whale, or sit in display cabinets and alongside them, in almost incongruous fashion sit a prodigious range of Damien Hirst’s works made up of butterflies and beetles. It’s almost the natural home for Damien’s works.Not one to be confined by walls, even those of the vast old Oceanographic Museum, Damien Hirst makes a final statement with his massive The Virgin Mother sculpture on the walls of the old harbour, best seen through the binoculars on the museum balcony. For more information view oceano.org
Damien Hirst Cornucopia at the Musee Oceanographic de Monaco is just one of the many world class art exhibition visits you can make when on holiday in one of our Cote Azur villas. The museum regularly has interesting guest exhibitions which complement the permanant displays.
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