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Damien Hirst



A Dead Shark Isn't Art, Stuckism International Gallery 2003
A Dead Shark Isn't Art, Stuckism International Gallery 2003

There has been equally vehement opposition to Hirst's work. Norman Tebbit commenting on the Sensation exhibition, wrote "Have they gone stark raving mad? The works of the 'artist' are lumps of dead animals. There are thousands of young artists who didn't get a look in, presumably because their work was too attractive to sane people. Modern art experts never learn."[32] The view of the tabloid press is summed up by a Daily Mail headline: "For 1,000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces. Today, pickled sheep and soiled beds threaten to make barbarians of us all." The Evening Standard art critic, Brian Sewell, said simply, "I don't think of it as art ... It is no more interesting than a stuffed pike over a pub door. Indeed there may well be more art in a stuffed pike than a dead sheep."[33] The Stuckist art group was founded in 1999 with a specific anti-Britart agenda by Charles Thomson (artist) and Billy Childish;[34] Hirst is one of their main targets. They wrote (referring to a Channel 4 programme on Hirst):

“ The fact that Hirst's work does mirror society is not its strength but its weakness - and the reason it is guaranteed to decline artistically (and financially) as current social modes become outmoded. What Hirst has insightfully observed of his spin-paintings in Life and Death and Damien Hirst is the only comment that needs to be made of his entire oeuvre: "They're bright and they're zany - but there's fuck all there at the end of the day."[33] ”

In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the Stuckism International Gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display two years before Hirst's by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies. Thomson asked, "If Hirst’s shark is recognised as great art, then how come Eddie’s, which was on exhibition for two years beforehand, isn’t? Do we perhaps have here an undiscovered artist of genius, who got there first, or is it that a dead shark isn’t art at all?" [35] The Stuckists suggested that Hirst may have gotten the idea for his work from Saunders' shop display.[36]

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Hirst's own collection

In November 2006 Hirst was curator of In the darkest hour there may be light, the first public exhibition of (a small part of) his own collection. Now known as the ‘murderme collection’, this significant accumulation of works spans several generations of international artists, from well-known figures such as Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin, Richard Prince and Andy Warhol, to artists in earlier stages of their careers like Rachel Howard, Nicholas Lumb and Tom Ormond.

“As a human being, as you go through life, you just do collect. It was that sort of entropic collecting that I found myself interested in, just amassing stuff while you’re alive.” - Damien Hirst, 2006.

Hirst is currently restoring the Grade I listed Toddington Manor, near Cheltenham, where he intends to eventually house the complete collection.

In 2007, Hirst donated the 1991 sculptures "The Acquired Inability to Escape" and "Life Without You" and the 2002 work "Who is Afraid of the Dark?" (fly painting), and an exhibition copy from 2007 of "Mother and Child Divided" to the Tate Museum from his own personal collection of works.

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Restaurant ventures

Hirst had a short-lived partnership with chef Marco Pierre White in the restaurant Quo Vadis.

Hirst's best known restaurant involvement was Pharmacy, located in Notting Hill, London, which closed in September 2003. Although one of the owners, Hirst had only leased his art work to the restaurant, so he was able to retrieve and sell it at a Sotheby's auction, earning over £11 million. Some of the work had been adapted, e.g. by signing it prior to the auction.[37].

Hirst opened and currently helps to run a seafood restaurant, 11 The Quay, in the seaside town of Ilfracombe in the UK.

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Artworks

His works include:

  • In and Out of Love (1991), an installation of potted plants, caterpillars and monochrome canvases painted with sugar solution and glue. There were also (in a separate room) tables with ashtrays containing used cigarette butts. Eventually, the caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies, and the insects become fixed to the surfaces of the canvases. In its now fixed form, the work is held by the Yale Center for British Art and is on regular exhibit there.
  • The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. This piece was one of the works in his Turner Prize nomination show.
  • Pharmacy(1992), a life-size recreation of a chemist's shop.
  • A Thousand Years (1991), composed of a vitrine with a glass division. In one half is the severed head of a cow on the floor; in the other is an insect electrocutor. Maggots introduced into the vitrine feed off the cow and then develop into flies that are killed by the electrocutor.
  • Amonium Biborate (1993)
  • Away from the Flock (1994), composed of a dead sheep in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
  • Arachidic Acid (1994) an early example of Hirst's spot paintings.
  • Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything (1996) multiple cows in a line head-to-tail, divided cross-sectionally into equal rectangular tanks of formaldehyde, equally-spaced, each containing about 3 feet of the animals.
  • Beautiful Axe , Slash, Gosh Painting (1999) Signed on the reverse. Gloss household paint on canvas
  • Hymn (1999), a scaled-up replica of his son Connor's toy: a basic anatomical model of the male human body. The sculpture is 20ft tall and composed of painted bronze.
  • Mother and Child Divided, composed of a cow and a calf sliced in half in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
  • Two Fucking and Two Watching, includes a rotting cow and bull. This work was banned from exhibition in New York by public health officials.
  • God, composed of a cabinet containing pharmaceutical products.
  • The Stations of the Cross (2004), a series of twelve photographs depicting the final moments of Jesus Christ, made in collaboration with the photographer David Bailey.
  • The Virgin Mother, a massive sculpture depicting a pregnant female human, with layers removed from one side to expose the fœtus, muscle and tissue layers, and skull underneath. This work was purchased by real estate magnate Aby Rosen for display on the plaza of one of his properties, the Lever House, in New York City.
  • Breath (2001), a 45-second film of Samuel Beckett's play for the Beckett on Film series.
  • The Wrath of God (2005), a new version of a shark in formaldehyde.
  • The Inescapable Truth, (2005). Glass, steel, dove, human skull and formaldehyde solution.
  • The Sacred Heart of Jesus, (2005). Perspex, bull's heart, silver, assorted needles, scalpels, and formaldehyde solution.
  • Faithless, (2005). Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
  • The Hat Makes de Man, (2005). Painted bronze that simulates wood and hats.
  • The Death of God, (2006). Household gloss on canvas, human skull, knife, coin and sea shells. This painting, which is a part of a group of others which were made in Mexico, are believed to be "the beginning of Hirst's Mexican period".
  • For The Love of God, a platinum cast of an 18th century skull covered in 8,601 diamonds.[38]
  • Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, a black calf tied to a pole pierced with arrows. The calf is in a tank of formaldehyde. Performer George Michael has recently purchased this calf and has made it Hirst's fourth most expensive piece.

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See also

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Notes and references

  1. ^ Alberge, Dalya (2007) "Pills lift Hirst to top of art world's most expensive list", The Times, 22 June 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  2. ^ Damien Hirst skull sells for $122 million
  3. ^ "Shockaholic" on BBC site Retrieved March 19, 2006
  4. ^ a b c d e f "I Knew It Was Time to Clean up My Act" Daily Telegraph, July 26, 2004 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  5. ^ a b Hirst, Damien and Burn, Gordon (2001). On the Way to Work. Faber
  6. ^ The Freeze catalogue 1988
  7. ^ "Saatchi mulls £6.25m shark offer", BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2007
  8. ^ The Guardian October 6, 2001 Retrieved March 19, 2006
  9. ^ a b c d "Hirst Pays up in Toy Row" on BBC site Retrieved March 19, 2006
  10. ^ "Charles Saatchi Could Have Bought Four Davids for the Price of Tracey Emin's Bed" The Daily Telegraph, January 7, 2006 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  11. ^ Transcript of Hirst's 9/11 comments Retrieved March 26, 2006
  12. ^ "Hirst apologies for 11 Sept Comments" BBC website Retrieved March 26, 2006
  13. ^ a b "Hirst Buys His Art back from Saatchi", The Guardian, November 27, 2003 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  14. ^ "Holy Cow! Hirst Turns to Religion" The Daily Telegraph, September 9, 2003 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  15. ^ "Damien Bares His Soul" The Daily Telegraph September 10, 2003 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  16. ^ Larry Gagosian website
  17. ^ Hugo Swire web site Retrieved February 18, 2006
  18. ^ Science Photo Library press release, March 15, 2005 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  19. ^ Gagosian Gallery Retrieved December 27, 2006
  20. ^ a b "Damien Hirst skull sells for 100 million dollars", yahoo.com
  21. ^ Thornton, Sarah & Adam, Georgina (May 04, 2008), “Revealed: $72.8m Rockefeller Rothko has gone to Qatar”, The Art Newspaper, <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7946> 
  22. ^ "Avoiding the sharks" Guardian Unlimited, February 14, 1999 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  23. ^ The New York Times
  24. ^ The Art Newspaper
  25. ^ Dallas News
  26. ^ a b c Alberge, Dalya. "Spot the difference as artist accuses Hirst of copying", The Times, 14 August 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
  27. ^ a b c Alberge, Dalya. "My old friend Damien stole my skull idea", The Times, 27 June 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
  28. ^ Gleadell, Colin. "Market news: Sotheby's, Jamie Reid, Rachel Howard and more...", Daily Telegraph, 30 January 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  29. ^ a b For Hirst, Channel 4 Retrieved March 19, 2006
  30. ^ The Independent on Sunday March 12, 2005 Retrieved March 19, 2006
  31. ^ Art Newspaper interview on Saatchi Gallery site Retrieved March 19, 2006
  32. ^ Against Hirst, Channel 4 Retrieved March 19, 2006
  33. ^ a b Against Hirst, Channel 4 Retrieved March 19, 2006
  34. ^ Stuckist anti-Britart manifesto, August 4, 1999 Retrieved March 20, 2006
  35. ^ Alberge, Dalya. "Traditionalists mark shark attack on Hirst", The Times, 10 April 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  36. ^ "A Dead Shark Isn't Art" on the Stuckism International web site Retrieved March 20, 2006
  37. ^ Laplaca on artnet.com
  38. ^ "Hirst unveils £50m diamond skull", BBC, 1 June 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2007.

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