Hindley is Britain's Charles Manson, serving life in prison for brutally torturing and murdering a dozen pre-adolescent children. There's a shark suspended in formaldehyde, a sheep ditto and a series of tanks containing a neatly sectioned cow. Now you can throw all the artspeak you want at this stuff, but it is not art. And, of course, it did, but that doesn't mean that it's art. My son eyeing a beautiful young woman who was gravely contemplating a pickled cow's butt.
Viewers see themselves spun, inverted, elongated and made to disappear.
Like Hirst, Rachel Whiteread is famous for a single concept. Rather than animals, Whiteread pickles spaces, by making resin casts of negative space, e.g., the spaces under chairs, or the interior of a room. Sounds sort of cool and interesting, and it is, at least for five minutes. But apart from the concept, there's no there there, just big, boring slabs of frozen snot. I loved Fiona Rae's untitled blue and purple triptych, but you sure have to wade through a lot of drek to find the good stuff.