NAME: Thomas Hirschhorn
PROFESSION: Installation Artist
NATIONALITY: Swiss
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: N/A (However a collection of his work can be viewed here) http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/125
I came across Thomas Hirschhorn earlier in the year when I visited the Tate Modern, his piece "Candelabra with Heads" really caught my eye, featuring a row of mannequin heads wrapped in mounds and mounds of brown tape, to the point where they looked like giant tumours. I've always had this weird, unexplainable fascination with mannequins, so to see a piece of art in the Tate Modern (of all places) make such point of using them I was very intrigued. I found out the Hirschhorn is well known for his huge installations, corresponding with themes of consumerism, war, politics, media and capitalism. He uses simple materials that everyone has access to, and turns them into grand sculptors.
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