Damien Hirst: who has the last laugh?
ARTinvestment.RU   23 ноября 2011

Hirst's skull grinning a diamond will be a major retrospective exhibit of the artist in the Tate in 2012

According to Site Explorer Artinfo Colin Milyard (Coline Milliard), a financial crisis - 2008 was at least one positive consequence: he personally demonstrated the absurdity of a skull encrusted with diamonds in platinum, Damien Hirst made in 2007. However, less than a few years, as the work "for God's love "worth 50 million pounds returns to London - this time with the approval of the gallery Tate.

Next year the precious skull, which is collectively owned by a consortium of investors, including of the Hurst, within two months will be on display in a separate compartment Turbine Hall of Tate under a grand retrospective of his creator. At the press conference of the museum curator Anne Gallagher (Ann Gallagher) refused to answer the question of security for future exhibitions.

Known for his shyness Hurst at a meeting with the press were not present. Instead, journalists regaled short film interview with the artist about his offspring a diamond. "I am very afraid that my work will ultimately tasteless jewelry crafts" - says touching revelations of the artist. "But who can say that this did not happen?" - asks a rhetorical question British correspondent Colin Artinfo Milyard.

retrospective of Damien Hirst at the Tate will be from 4 April to 9 September The festival London-2012 - a grand cultural project, dedicated to the British government in London Olympic Games. Britain has decided to pay tribute to the same artist who almost single-handedly raised its contemporary art of this country to the U.S. level.

More than 70 papers to be presented to the audience show, Hurst cover activities from the end of 1980, the period of the birth of the legendary group "The Young British Artists» (Young British Artists, YBA). Historians of art did not have an event that could well mark the beginning of the movement YBA. The status of the starting point for managed very well show "Cold» («Freeze»), which Damien Hirst held a storerooms port and industrial area of ​​London Docklands in 1988.

In the same year Hearst began a series of works has not been exhausted and still, - a painting with colored dots (Gagosian gallery soon plans to hold a double exhibition of works in this series in all its branches around the world). It is known that one of the first 'spotted' work, titled " edge, "Hirst painted directly on the wall - especially for the exhibition will reproduce it on the wall in the Tate. The exhibition will admire and to work with butterflies, including the work will be shown in 1991" In and out of love »(« In and Out of Love »), for which the gallery will hatch a swarm of live butterflies. Fans will be able to look at the Hearst early" rooms "and the installation - for example," Pharmacy "1992. Well, of course, the retrospective is complete without herds of animals preserved in formaldehyde.

«It is extremely prolific," - says the curator Gallagher, a selection of works for the show was worth much effort. In the end, she decided to concentrate on building an early work by Hirst, which allowed easy workaround For example, a series of "blue paintings" clobber during her first show at London's Wallace Collection in 2009. However, this selectivity curators at risk of stress, how often Hurst repeats itself twenty years later.

Up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers have been working incredibly Hurst, disgustingly successful. He borrowed the marketing strategies of Warhol and Koons, but in the absence of wit or humor accompanied the dominance of the comments about the riches that flow through the art market. British artists today they are quite at other positions. Just look at the work of the current nominees for the Turner Prize: it is not so straightforward, more restrained and varied. Perhaps the retrospective at the Tate - it is what it takes to finally make part of Hearst's history, to clear the road and give the word to others .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources < /strong>: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru