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Damien Hirst brings his art to The Baltic, Gateshead
It's not often the work of award-winning artist Damien Hirst can be seen up north.
But the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has secured a coup for the region when work from one of the UK's most high-profile contemporary artists lands at the gallery this week.
Hirst's wide-ranging practice has sought to challenge the boundaries between art, science and popular culture.
His visceral, often challenging work explores human experience, posing fundamental questions about the meaning of life and the fragility of existence.
Pharmacy was originally shown at the Cohen Gallery, New York, in 1992 and was acquired by Tate in 1996.
And now his masterpeice can be seen at the Baltic thanks to the Tate Connects programme, which aims to give other regions access to the Tate's extensive collection.
The installation is an apparently functioning pharmacy, complete with counter and floor-to- ceiling cabinets holding preparations and drugs.
Entering the space from behind the counter, the viewer discovers the pharmacy as if stumbling in from the storage room.
See what's happening at The Baltic, Gateshead.
Pharmacy explores the unquestioning confidence that society places in modern medicine, offering a look at our reliance on medicine as a belief system that is fundamentally centred on death.
Pharmacy can be seen from Saturday until February 7.
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