Damien Hirst discusses contemporary art "A Thousand Years"

Damien Hirst discusses "A Thousand Years", a response to the Francis Bacon triptych with The Times art critic, Rachel Campbell-Johnston.

Damien Hirst
A Thousand Years
1990
Steel, glass, flies, maggots, MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow's head, sugar, water
213 x 427 x 213 cm
contemporary art
Hirst's work is an examination of the processes of life and death: the ironies, falsehoods and desires that we mobilise to negotiate our own alienation and mortality.


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBC2mTuGCk