London's art beat
Jake and Dino Chapman's art is sure to shock
11 April 2012
Damien Hirst continues his passion for pickling in his latest exhibition at Tate Britain. The In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida show is a collaboration between three young British artists; Hirst, Angus Fairhurst and Sarah Lucas.
One of the pieces, In His Infinite Wisdom, features a mutant stillborn calf with six legs. Another, a reworking of a 1946 canvas by Francis Bacon, shows live fish swimming in a stomach-churning swamp of sausages and butchers' knives.
The show promises to be as provocative as any of his headline-grabbing work from the nineties, which featured stuffed sheep and a tiger shark in formaldehyde. But Hirst is certainly not the only artist to have stirred up some controversy recently in the capital....
