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Carol Vogel’s description of the recent Damien Hirst unveiling in Doha reads a bit like a scene from a Middle Eastern Willy Wonka movie: “At 7 on Monday evening, to the amplified sound of a beating heart, members of Qatar’s royal family, government officials and local artists watched as each balloon, bathed in purple light, opened like a giant flower to reveal an unusually provocative public artwork.” The work in question is dubbed “The Miraculous Journey,” a title perhaps more suitable for a Thomas Kinkade mall masterpiece than a huge sculpture by the most prominent YBA star. With this latest provocation, Hirst finally provides an answer to the oft-asked question, How best to celebrate the wondrous and ineffable miracle of life? Clearly, one erects a 14-part bronze sculpture depicting fetal development. We should at least be grateful that Damien refrained from bedazzling his super sized infant with $14 million worth of diamonds.
Uncomfortable art involving babies is nothing new. Who hasn’t cringed when observing one of Anne Geddes’s floral infant arrangements, or Adam Fuss’s photographs of ghostly, floating toddlers? Artinfo has culled a few of contemporary art’s finest (and foulest) baby cameos.
Marc Quinn, Evolution, 2007
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Ron Mueck, “Big Baby II,” 1997
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David Černý, “Tower Babies,” 2000
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Judy Fox,”Eve,” 1987
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Gustav Vigeland, “Mann jager fire genier”
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Maria von Kohler, “Madonna and Child,” 2011
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Daniel Edwards, “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,” 2006
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Nina Levy, “Big Baby,” 1997
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Charles Ray, “Family Romance,” 1993
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AES+F, “Angels-Demons. Parade,” 2009
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