Gagosian
/// Damien Hirst: A Thousand Years & Francis
Bacon: Triptychs Though I had to Google a ‘triptych’
(a painting on three hinged and folded panels lest you ask)
which doesn’t say much for my pub quiz knowledge,
Francis Bacon felt that these juxtaposition of images that
were his strongest. Perhaps because there is an innately
religious overtone, as these pieces are common alter-piece,
and are the perfect canvas for his deformed, nightmare-ish
imagery.
As if Bacon wasn’t enough, this is a double bill with
the only other artist that can compete with his primal obsession
of the death and the human condition, Damien Hirst. A Thousand
Years, one of Hirst's most provocative works sees maggots
hatching turn into flies, then feed on a bloody cows head.
In that case, get there sooner rather than later for this
one.
June 20-August 4. 10am-6pm Tues-Sat.
6-24 Britannia Street, WC1X 9JD
Tel. 020 7841 9960 www.gagosian.com
Rokeby
/// Mark Moore Gallery Presents &
Erika Eyres Emerging artists from LA and a concurrent exhibition
of Erika Eyres. Nominated for Becks Futures 2006, Eyres
has an eye for the quirky, with uneasy glares and glimpses
under the fringes of her sensually drawn characters, she
gets you into a bizarre but wholly absurd little world
Gagosian
/// Damien Hirst: A Thousand Years & Francis
Bacon: Triptychs
Rokeby
/// Mark Moore Gallery Presents &
Erika Eyres