The first solo exhibition in his hometown of Leeds has attracted the attention of local residents. True, not everyone liked it

What with the fact that Britain's Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), author of a great number of provocative works of art, considered one of the most influential figures in the international art scene? However, his former teacher of art college in Leeds is not enthusiastic about the painful images of the artist (bringing him neshutochnye income), calls them "spiritually poor" and did not agree with the author, who finds them sexy.

first solo exhibition by Damien Hirst in his hometown of Leeds, opened July 15 at City Arts Gallery . In the first week of the exhibition was visited by 11 000 people - the people of Leeds have met with great interest the symbolic "homecoming" of their famous citizen.

However, the former teacher of Hirst's art college in Leeds, has criticized the excessive enthusiasm of the artist expensive, made to sell the things that, from her point of view, can hardly be called innovative. Gloria Simons (Gloria Simons) has accused Hearst that "he mocks everything, even over death." According to her, "even though he is the richest artist of the UK, it seems the most spiritually impoverished of all. While he was happy dance on the bones (in a figurative sense) of defenseless animals and people, the money flow is poured in his pockets. How many more, Mr. Hurst will be hosting a provocation? Is it time to understand him, at last, that death is not sexy? »

Among the exhibited works of Hirst's famous work is the 1994" strayed from the flock, "which is the carcass of a sheep in formaldehyde . The exhibition is organized with the participation of the project «Artist Rooms», created by noted collector Anthony d'Offeem (Anthony d'Offay), as well as with the support of the Tate Gallery, Fine Arts Fund (Art Fund) and the National Gallery of Scotland (National Galleries of Scotland). < /p>

once who taught the young Hearst Harry Barker (Garry Barker), an inspector for some humanities and elective courses in art college, where he was studying, said his figures came around some kind of "mythology "does not always correspond to reality. "He was very talkative, interesting young man. In my opinion, I just gave it to practice in local training hospital, so he was very interested in the structure of the human body, "- says Barker. He also said that one of the earliest art projects Hearst was a collage of items that belonged to deceased elderly man, to make a collage, Hearst entered the house of the deceased may, however, without permission from the relatives of the deceased.

representative of the Fine Arts Gallery, where works by Hirst, said that the artist rejected a proposal to give a speech at the opening.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinvestment.ru