A Grand exhibition of Damien Hirst opened in Venice
ARTinvestment.RU   13 апреля 2017

Presented at the exhibition in Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana with the mythical treasures of the sunken ship "Incredible" are really a figment of the imagination and a decade of work by Hirst and his assistants

the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana
Venice
9 April — 3 Dec 2017

Ten years of silence and preparation, and here 51-летний member of the "Young British artists" presented that may be one of the most expensive exhibitions in the world taken separately modern artist. According to some reports, Hirst himself has invested in the exhibit "Treasures from the shipwreck of "the Incredible"" ("Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable") 50 million pounds. The exhibition was made especially for Venice and takes about 5000 square meters floor space of the buildings of Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana (the former customs house) on the Grand-канале owned by françois Pinault.

the exhibition presents 189 works. A cursory examination can really make all those statues, busts and fragments for raising from sea treasure: they are densely covered with mussels, if you've spent more than a century on the ocean floor. In favor of this version say underwater pictures and movies in which brave divers captured just at the moment of the "discovery" of all these items.

the Ship "Incredible", as stated in the announcement of the exhibition, carrying a strange collection of things Turk Amatana II, sank where-то in the I–II century off the coast of East Africa, where he found a group of scuba divers in 2008. Meeting with the sunken ship covers, like, works of art of all ancient civilizations — Hindu, Aztec, Incan, Roman, Egyptian, etc. Similar to exhibits from the British Museum, or picture from a book on the history of world art. But if you look closely, the face of one of the goddesses strongly reminiscent of the face Kate moss, and among the "ancient" sculptures wormed and goofy sculpture of Damien Hirst, shaking a paw Mickey-Маусу. Cast noble patina "bronze" is nothing more than a clever form of plastic. Shellfish is also not real, because when exposed to oxygen, the living coral faded, and these are iridescent. In General, the next draw from provocateur Hirst. "This exhibition is about what people want to believe", — commented the author of the exhibition concept.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: edition.cnn.com, damienhirst.com, standard.co.uk, wmagazine.com, artinvestment.ru