Damien Hirst exhibition is just what Baltic ordered.DAMIEN Hirst, the art world's favourite Mr Controversy, is to exhibit at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is an international centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the river Tyne at the foot of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, Northern England. in Gateshead. Pharmacy, a work dating from 1992, is to be displayed in the Level 2 gallery from October 24 until February next year. The work comprises an apparently functioning pharmacy, complete with counter and drug cabinets. Originally shown at a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of gallery, it was bought by the Tate Gallery in 1996 and will come to Gateshead as part of Tate Connects, a scheme aimed at giving the public greater access to the Tate collection. The exhibition will be sponsored by Newcastle University Medical School as part of its 175th anniversary celebrations. Prof Chris Day, Pro Vice Chancellor for the faculty of medical sciences, said: "By bringing art and medicine together, visitors are made to think about medical treatments and what they mean to their own health care. "A lot of the work we're doing here is about helping people make healthier life choices and exploring preventative medicine, rather than relying on drug-related treatment, and this exhibition, we hope, will stimulate that debate in the North East." It won't be the first time Hirst's interest in science through art has been debated on Tyneside. In 1997 Newcastle City Council and the Tyne & Wear Development Corporation planned to erect a giant Hirst sculpture of a double helix, representing the DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. molecule, on Newcastle Quayside quay·side n. The area adjacent to a quay or wharf or a system of quays, especially in a port city. quayside quay n → Kai m opposite Baltic. The sculpture could have been 120 ft high but the plan was eventually scrapped when the cost of commissioning and installing it threatened to rise above pounds 1m. CAPTION(S): OVER THE COUNTER CULTURE Pharmacy, an installation by Damien Hirst is set to be shown at Baltic until February. |
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