Astrup Fearnley Museum Of Modern Art
Contemporary art museum whose collection includes a bisected cow and calf preserved in formaldehyde.
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This guide to the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo is about one work: Damien Hirst's Mother and Child, Divided, a cow and her calf split lengthwise and suspended in formaldehyde. It follows the piece from the Venice Biennale of the early nineties and a Turner Prize win to its purchase by an Oslo museum. Along the way it asks what it really takes to keep an animal on display for good.
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