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Hirst Sculpture Springs a Leak

Posted Sep 28, 07 7:21 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Damien Hirst won fame and fortune for his installations of animals preserved in formaldehyde, but now, writes the Telegraph, his vitrines are in less-than-perfect shape. The Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo recently discovered liquid seeping out of sculpture Mother and Child Divided, which preserves a cow and calf sliced into segments. It's not the first Hirst to have integrity problems.

The museum will replace the glass in the vitrine and complete minor repairs to the tank's seams. But as contemporary art takes on new materials, it brings with it new conservation concerns, as well as business ones: Last year the billionaire hedge-fund investor Steven Cohen paid $13 million for a work containing a preserved shark only to discover that the fish was rotting.

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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An installation view of the work Mother and Child Divided, by Damien Hirst.   (Tate)
A detail of Mother and Child Divided, a 1993 work by Damien Hirst.   (Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo)
British artist Damien Hurst poses during solo exhibition at the White Cube gallery in London, Friday, June 1, 2007. Hirst's "Lullaby Spring" sold Thursday, June 21, 2007, for $19.1 million ( 9.6 million...   (Associated Press)
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