{"id":88,"date":"2014-08-02T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2014-08-12T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:11:52","slug":"the-miraculous-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/case-studies\/the-miraculous-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miraculous Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Designed by: Damien Hirst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location and Spatial Context:<\/strong> S<span class=\"userContent\">ituated in front of the Sidra Medical and Research Centr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">e, Qatar. Its a large scale artwork which can be viewed when driving by it in the parking lot of the building and also from afar. It is called a &#8220;pedestal site&#8221; artwork.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Typology: <\/strong><span class=\"userContent\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Figurative<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\"><strong>Community Role:<\/strong> Damien Hirst&#8217;s \u201cThe Miraculous Journey\u201d\u00a0 is one of the largest sculptures in the world.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> It has received a lot of controversial comments from the conservative Muslim communities.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost of the art piece:<\/strong> 20 million US$<\/p>\n<p>It consists of 14 bronze sculptures tracing the development of a fetus from gestation to birth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500.jpg\" alt=\"miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500\" width=\"798\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500.jpg 798w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous_jourey_hirst_05-798x500-478x300.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous-journey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-133 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous-journey.jpg\" alt=\"miraculous-journey\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous-journey.jpg 600w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous-journey-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/files\/2014\/08\/miraculous-journey-463x300.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed by: Damien Hirst Location and Spatial Context: Situated in front of the Sidra Medical and Research Centre, Qatar. Its a large scale artwork which can be viewed when driving by it in the parking lot of the building and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/case-studies\/the-miraculous-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":147,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/publicarturepresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}