Damien Hirst’s Butterflies
Damien Hirst’s “The Bilotti Paintings: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John”
January 21-March 26, 2006, at the Norton Museum of Art.
These awesome evocations of the Four Evangelists set the artifacts of writing — pens, phrases, manuscripts — within the cosmic context of infinite space and colorful nebulae. Butterflies symbolize the universal evangelism of those who wrote the Gospels and carried their message to all mankind: “Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
Artblog believes that “the eternal verities have to get hauled out in support of his work” because “as objects, they fail loudly and obviously.”
Beautiful.
Comment by mistress — March 3, 2006 @ 11:11 pm