Anna and I went friday last week after work and bought our tickets to the 21 o'clock tour. As we got there about 7.30pm we had a little time before we were allowed in, so we went for a drink at one of the pubs near Tate with a nice view over the Thames. The weather was perfect that weekend so we sat outside.
I found the exhibition absolutely fantastic and fascinating. I loved all his thoughts behind his creations - even though some of them made you think "how the h*** can one come up with such a thing". In one of the rooms were a big glass vitrine full of flies, a head of a cow and a electric lamp-thing which was his way of describing a life cycle. Maggots hatching then developing into flies, feeding on a head of a dead cow. As they fly around, many of the flies meet their end on an insect-o-cutor and others survive to continue the cycle.
The big shark in the tank was not as frightening as I thought it would be - it might have something to do with it being a liiittle wrinkly but I guess that is how you would look after spending 21 years in that tank.
More bizarre was the cow and calf that had the title mother and child divided (I guess this one have two meanings) - they were in each their tank and sliced in half and each half in separate tanks, so you could have a look of the inside by walking through.
His way of placing natural things together and in positions you would never have thought of really fascinated me. Towards the end of the exhibition there were a white dove in a glass vitrine. It had its wings spread out as if it was about to fly off or land - it seemed like time had stopped and the dove had frozen in its position - amazing! Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the dove.
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