“Like an old man going back for one last fling in the cathouse, Hirst’s grinning calf is his final fling at a dirty little thrill or which he has had to create a grand pavilion of riches and gilts and showmanship, lest his true, very erotic purpose be discovered. I guess all that is left for a now flaccid Damien is some croquet and a bit of falconry in Dubai.”
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This reminds me, I need to be a better writer.
Yet his new project sounds like a big-budget Hollywood movie with a distinctly Hirstian title, “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.”
“It’s a story of a ship, called the ‘Unbelievable,’ that sank 2,000 years ago,” Hirst said. “It was carrying a lot of treasures, sculptures, jewels and things like that, to create a palace. And it sank and was lost forever.”
Though this prehistoric Titanic is pure fiction, the artist will treat it as reality. He plans to stage the discovery of the ship, send divers to recover its many treasures, photograph the process and then make paintings based on the photographs.
New Michelangelos
He will fabricate cabinets filled with rubies and gold nuggets; some will be real, others made of resin. There will be skulls.
Sculptures will be based on famous works from art history, including Michelangelo’s “Rebellious Slave” at the Louvre in Paris.
“I’ll predate them before Michelangelo almost like he’s seen them and copied them,” Hirst said. “I thought it would be a lot of fun to not know: Is this real? Isn’t this real? What is real? Am I real?”
You know what Damien? I’m not in the mood. I’m really not in the mood for this line of thought from you, not at all. I liked you better when you went back to painting on your own. What happened to that?*
*I feel like his mother “but what happened to that nice girl you were dating before? I liked her”
Pill Cufflinks by Damien Hirst…
Damien Hirst’s bespoke pill cufflinks derive from his Pharmacy body of work as solid silver tablets and capsules. They are engraved with the Hirst/Hirst logo and are hallmarked. The pills are presented in a black leather box with a black satin interior which is also stamped with the Hirst/Hirst and Other Criteria logos. (via and simko)
He never quits does he? Wallpaper, blankets, jeans, cufflinks…what could be next? I’m hoping for a collaboration of make-up w/ MAC, a la Minter. Too much to ask?
Do It Written and Directed by Damien Hirst.
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist as part of Museum in Progress project/Vienna. 1995/96.
Damien Hirst has gone and made himself a kind of boring cashmere blanket.
Using techniques similar to those used 150 years ago, fabric and colour are built up in layers and given clarity and depth by the use of soft, pure Scottish water and cloth woven from the finest of of fibres. Part of the finishing process involves air-drying and paper-pressing the blankets to ensure a lustrous surface. via…
At least it sounds fancy.
Damien HirstThe Crow 2009
White Cube just opened a show with 19 new(er) paintings by Damien Hirst. I don’t know why I am enjoying these paintings more than his last show. Perhaps it’s the red? The subjectmatter? Composition is getting stronger? Doesn’t feel as much of a Bacon rip-off as before?
One of Damien Hirst’s paintings that is up at the Wallace Collection now.
I had the hardest time finding an article that didn’t have a picture of Hirst with the paintings. How telling.
Very dark paintings are difficult to read in pictures (especially over the internet) but my first reaction is too Bacon-y. It reminds me of when Julian Schnabel trys to be Cy Twombly, kind of depressing and lacking.
» DAMIEN HIRST HAS REINVENTED HIMSELF!!!!
…or something.
I can’t be bothered to read the entire thing, but I think the gist of it is that he’s painting again.
