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Huyghe’s aquarium set to swim from coast to coast

Zoodram 5 (Recollection) is being jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Anny Shaw
15 June 2015
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One of Pierre Huyghe’s aquariums is soon to become bicoastal. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are jointly acquiring Zoodram 5 (Recollection) (2011). The institutions will share the glass tank and a gold-coloured miniature replica of Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse (1910). The aquarium will contain arrow crabs, and the reproduction Brancusi sculpture is built to house a hermit crab; each museum will rent the sea creatures locally every time the work is installed. Visitors to Art Basel can see Cambrian Explosion (2014), another of Huyghe’s aquariums, in Unlimited (U46), courtesy of Hauser & Wirth (D10).

Update: Cambrian Explosion sold for €500,000 to a private collector at the VIP opening of Art Basel on 16 June.

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