{"id":44565,"date":"2025-08-04T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:37:18","slug":"explore-unseen-works-from-late-artist-hamad-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44565\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore unseen works from late artist Hamad Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trained at Saint Martin\u2019s School of Art before completing his MA at Goldsmiths College in 1990, Hamad\u2019s aesthetic was sharp and clean, almost laboratory-like, and often dealt with themes of transformation, danger, and control. His most famous works used glass containers filled with toxic substances like chlorine gas or hydrochloric acid, acting as metaphors for invisible threat, the body\u2019s vulnerability, and the fragility of existence. The artist\u2019s most famous installation \u201cTransmission&#8221;, shown at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford and later at the Tate in 1995, embodied this ethos: sterile glass flasks glowed ominously under neon light, balanced between seduction and menace. The work was a contemplation of contagion\u2014both biological and societal\u2014a reflection of his own experience living with HIV in a time when stigma often rendered those suffering invisible. Another element of the \u201cTransmission\u201d installation (which was originally created in 1990) included a glass case that showcased the life cycle of flies, and it\u2019s this piece that has recently hit news headlines again: his peer at Goldsmiths was Damien Hirst whose alarmingly similar artwork \u201cA Thousand Years\u201d also utilised live flies, but debuted after Transmission. Make of that what you will\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trained at Saint Martin\u2019s School of Art before completing his MA at Goldsmiths College in 1990, Hamad\u2019s aesthetic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-44565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}