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Damien Hirst Collaborates with Parisian Taxidermists for Special Cabinet Installation

Thursday, September 25th, 2014

Parisian Taxidermy specialist Peyrolle has announced a collaboration with Damien Hirst.  Titled Signification (Hope, Immortality and Death in Paris, Now and Then), the “Cabinet of Curiosities” includes stuffed birds and insects, alongside a selection of cleaning products.  “From the Surrealists to now, artists have come to Deyrolle not only to be inspired, but also to have a relationship with le vivant — the living — and the collapse of the living,” says Deyrolle’s owner Prince Louis Albert de Broglie.  (more…)