Diamond skull - frightening work of the artist-provocator D. Herest

At the mention of the scandalous British in memory, art objects, causing horror and delight at the same time. Dismeterable and wicked animals, human skulls, picturesque works with cemetery motifs attracted public attention in the early 90s of the last century.

The theme of death always passes the red thread through the work of Damien Hirst. So, a dead shark, filled in formaldehyde, scares and repels the viewer who understands that a non-living body retains a recognizable appearance. People interpret the rejection object through the prism of who he was once. Despite the conceptual ideas, all the artist's exhibitions are accompanied by scandals.

Symbol of death

The human skull has always been a symbol of Tlen and Death. As all mysterious and frightening, he attracted the attention of creative people and inspired horror in the heart of the audience. There are quite a few artists, sculptors, writers who devoted their creations to this topic.

A diamond skull, whose photo causes admiration and fear, is the fascinating work of Damien Hirst. The revealing idea of \u200b\u200bthe tranquency of our life, the author worships death, presents it in different hypostasses and earns on this good money.

The most discussed artist of modernity, excluding the world with his masterpieces, as if making a challenge, trying to explore the nature of death and demonstrating the victory of his life over her.

The most expensive work of art

A diamond skull, known as the sake of the sake of the sake of the most expensive work of the art of the Healthy Author. The master who built Platinum Moulas White and Pink Diamonds in 2007, he cost $ 20 million. As Herst himself said, famous for the creative approach to work, his The work does not have a clear meaning, and the viewer in its own way interprets the value.

However, the master who adores provocations always focuses on a thin balance between life and death. The viewer looks at a diamond skull associated with a delented, and understands that this is the end. But death, which is so beautiful, inspires him and hope. Precious stones having the dark side are associated with a luxurious life, as well as eternity.

How was the diamond skull created?

As a basis, I took the Kunstkamer Skull of the European Skull, who lived in the XVIII century, and made his cast, in which, with the help of a laser, made small cells for precious stones. The brilliant provocatetor, arguing that an unusual idea came to his head under the influence of the art of Aztecs, covered the work of platinum.

Diamonds are provided by famous jewelers that are suppliers of the Royal Court of England. Faceted diamonds are neatly inserted into miniature holes and are firmly fixed. The most expensive stone (pink diamond weighing more than 52 karat) is located in the forehead of the skull, from which all the teeth were taken, and platinum were installed instead.

Who is the owners of a precious masterpiece?

It is known that the buyer of the work of art, called the critics of the real blessing, was a group of anonymous investors, which acquired a diamond skull for one hundred million dollars. This is a record price for the masterpiece of the modern artist. Hearst claims that he was paid in cash, so he cannot provide evidence of the transaction. Later, journalists found out an amazing fact: the author and his manager F. Danafi himself turned out to be among the investors.

And soon the new information about the owner of the diamond skull appeared. It turned out to be the Ukrainian magnate V. Pinchuk, which is interested in contemporary art, however, his representatives did not confirm this fact, but did not refute.

Opportunity to get acquainted with frightening creation

A diamond skull (a photo of an unusual work took over all the media) exhibited in Amsterdam and Florence, and in 2012 it was demonstrated in the London Gallery. The author himself admitted that he was happy, because the Hall Tate Modern is a wonderful place to get acquainted closer with the work that causes a variety of emotions.

The fact is that no museum of the world could afford to put an expensive exhibit, because to cover the cost of insurance, which keeps in the secret, state institutions are unable. The work could appear in the Hermitage, however, due to the financial issue, the tour was broken.

New masterpiece who is looking for his owner

It is curious that Hurst, who makes a career on the topic of death, did not calm down on the achieved and presented a new shocking work, called "God for". At the end of 2010, the master of provocations cast another diamond skull of a newborn baby, which he took from the collection of pathologies of the human body.

The cost of work inlaid white and is not called, but art historians evaluate it in 200 million pounds. If someone wishes to acquire this sculpture, it is she who in the world of modern art.

The Gary Tatinitzian Gallery opened the exhibition Damien Hirst, one of the most expensive and well-known modern artists. Hurst to Russia is not brought to Russia for the first time: before that there were a retrospective in the Russian Museum, a small exposition in the "Triumph" gallery, as well as the collection of the artist himself in Mamm. This time, visitors will present the most significant works of 2008, sold by the artist by the artist at the personal auction Sotheby "S in the same year. Buro 24/7 tells why butterflies, multicolored circles and tablets are so important for understanding the work of Hirst.

How Herst became an artist

Damien Hirst can be fully considered the personification of Young British Artists - generations no longer young, but very successful artists, whose peak of the heyday occurred in the 90s. Among them - Tracy Emin with neon inscriptions, Jake and Dinos Chapmani with love for small figures and a dozen other masters.

YBA unites not only student in the prestigious Goldsmith College, but also the first joint exhibition FREEZE, which was held in 1988 in an empty administration building in London docks. The curator spoke Herst himself - he selected work, ordered the catalog and planned the opening of the exhibition. Freeze attracted the attention of Charles Saatchi - advertising magnate, collector and future patron of Young British Artists. Two years later, Satchi acquired the first in his collection of the installation of Hirst - the work of the "Thousand Years", and also offered him sponsing of his future creations.

Damien Herst, 1996. Photo: Catherine McGann / Getty Images

The theme of death, which later became central in the work of Hurst, slippers already in the "thousands of years." The essence of the installation was a permanent cycle: Flyers appeared from eggs of the larvae, which crawled to the roting cow's head and died on the wires of electronic fly swathers. A year later, Saatchi lent herself money to the creation of another work about the cycle of life - the famous stuffed shark placed in formaldehyde.

"The physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living"

In 1991, Charles Saatichi bought for Herst Australian shark for six thousand pounds. Today shark symbolizes a soap bubble of contemporary art. For newspaperrs, it turned into a rash staple (example - an article Sun under the headline "£ 50,000 for fish without chips"), and also became one of the main topics of the book of economist Don Tompson "How to sell scarecrow sharks for 12 million: scandalous truth about modern art and auction houses. "

Despite the noise, in 2006, the head of the Steve Cohen Hedge Foundation was bought in eight million dollars. Among the interested buyers was Nicholas Serot, the director of the Tate Modern gallery, the largest museum of Sovrisk, along with New York Moma and Paris Pompidu. Attention to installation attracted not only a list of key names for modern art names, but also the time of its existence is 15 years. Over the years, the body of the Shark managed to swallow, and the husk had to replace it and pull on the plastic frame. "The physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living" was the first job in the "Natural History" series - afterwards Herst also placed in the formaldehyde of the sheep and dissected cow carcasses.

THE PHYSICAL IMPOSIBILITY OF DEATH IN THE MIND OF SOMEONE LIVING, 1991

Black Sheep, 2007

Love "S Paradox (Surrender or Autonomy, Separateness As A Precondition for Connection.), 2007

THE TRANQUILITY OF SOLITUDE (for George Dyer), 2006

Rotation and Kaleidoskopa

The work of the hirst can be divided into several genres. In addition to the mentioned aquariums with formaldehyde, they allocate "rotation" and "spots" - the latter perform the artist's assistants in his studio. The topic of life and death continues butterflies. Here and the Kaleidoscope like the stained glass in the Gothic Cathedral, and the Grand Installation "fall in love or sobble" are rooms, fully filled with these insects. For the sake of creating the last Hearst, about nine thousand butterflies sacrificed: in the Tate Gallery, where a retrospective was held, 400 new insects were brought daily to replace the dead.

The retrospective was the most visited in the history of the museum: in five months she saw her almost half a million viewers. Next to the theme of life and death logically, there is a "pharmacy" - when looking at the point paintings, the artist arises associations with medicines. In 1997, Damien Herst opened the restaurant "Pharmacy". In 2003, he closed, and the sale of decor and interior items at the auction brought amazing 11.1 million dollars. The topic of medical preparations Herst developed in a more visual key - a separate series of artist is dedicated to cabinets with manually spreading tablets. The most materially successful work was the "Spring Lullaby" - the rack with pills brought the artist $ 19 million dollars.

Damien Herst, Untitled, 1992; IN SEARCH OF NIRVANA, 2007 (FRAGMENT OF INSTALLATION)

"For the sake of love for God"

Another well-known piece of Hearst (and also in all senses is expensive) - skull, swept over eight with more than thousands of diamonds. The work received its name from the first message of John - "For this is love for God." This again refers us to the theme of the strugnure of life, the inevitability of death and reasoning about the essence of being. In the forehead of the skull is a diamond worth four million pounds. The manufacture itself cost a hurs in 12 million, and the price for the work was as a result of about 50 million pounds (about $ 100 million). The skull was shown in the Amsterdam State Museum, and then sold the group of investors through the Gallery of White Cube Jay Jopling, another major dealer who collaborated with Hearst.

Damien Herst, "For this is love for God," 2007

Records, fakes and phenomenon of glory

Although Hurst does not establish absolute records, among now living artists, it is considered one of the most expensive. Rising prices for his work reached a peak at the end of zero - with the sale of sharks, skulls and other works. A separate episode can also be called Sotheby's auction in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis: he brought him 111 million pounds, which is 10 times more than the previous record - a similar auction of Picasso in 1993. The most expensive lot was the "Golden Taurus" - the Bull Town In formalin sold for 10.3 million pounds.

The history of the formation of Hirst is an example of an ideal scenario for any modern artist, in which competent marketing has hardly played a hardly key role. Even ridiculous stories like a gallery cleaner Eyestorm, who has developed an artist's installation in a trash can, or pastor from Florida, convicted of trying to sell the fakes of Hirst in 2014, looks nephonally against the background of the high-profile trick of the artist himself. Recession of interest in Hurst became the most obvious in the last five years after the next exhibition in White Cube- The head of critics became more tangible, the ingenuity of the hurst was no longer affected by the delivered public, and the auction records moved to other players - Richtera, Kunsu and Kapuru. Anyway, the halo of Glory Hirst continues to spread to his old work, which today can be viewed in Tattitzian Gallery. In front of Hirst and new projects - on the eve of the Venetian Biennale, the artist opens a large exhibition in Palazzo Grassi and Punta Dogan. According to the press release, they are the "fruit of the decade of work" - it is quite likely to report to Damien Herst again.

Like the last, the new skull is cast from platinum and inlaid with diamonds - white and pink. However, the new work of Hurst - a baby skull, and, accordingly, in size it is less skull For love for god, Reports The Art Newspaper.

The new Creation of Hearst will become the central exhibit of the first exhibition in the new gallery of Larry Gagosyan in Hong Kong, opening up on January 18. The value of the skull is not called.

Skull For love for god - One of the most famous works of Damien Hirst. It was manufactured in 2007, with the cost of materials used in its manufacture, accounted for about 15 million pounds (the skull is incrouted by more than 8,600 diamonds).

In 2008, Herst sold the skull for 50 million pounds, and, according to the artist, they paid cash for the skull, that is, he did not have any evidence. Moreover, according to some reports, the artist himself was among the investors who paid for the purchase.

In 2009, the media appeared in the media that the Cherep co-owner is also Ukrainian businessman and patron Viktor Pinchuk, but Pinchuk representatives were not confirmed by this information, but did not refute.

Damien Herst is considered not only the most expensive, but also the richest of the now living artists. His condition is assessed by more than 200 million pounds. The theme of death is one of the central in the work of Herest.

Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), still knows how to make the audience. Mankind was just just bored with the existence of a platinum skull, covered with diamonds, worth $ 100 million, and Hearst already makes a new social opinion and public taste. He creates another similar skull, but not an adult person, but a child.

In recent years, the name of Demien Hirst in recent years has become a brand with a cost comparable to the price of a controlling stake in a large transnational corporation. Everything, for nothing that this creator would attract, will be sold for fabulous money, if it is a carcass of a dead cow or rap-bluished style.
And, with each new job, heated by the attention of the public and billionaire collectors, Hearst is becoming increasingly provocative, rapid and tough. So creativity brings more money.
Here, most importantly, do not keep yourself within. And, if people are "burly" a very ambiguous jewelry in the form of a platinum skull, and someone even gave it a hundred million dollars on him, then it is possible to continue to operate this topic, but already at the new level.

So Demien Hearst and created a new product - another precious skull, but this time already children's. Anthropologists say that a child who could belong to this platinum skull, swept over eight thousand white and pink diamonds, would be about two weeks from the genus. And this is a very controversial creative step even for Harst.
And, despite the fact that this work called "For Heaven's Sake" ("For the sake of God") was not yet officially represented in public, all sorts of public organizations, who believe that her author has encroached the Holy - Her author of all sorts of public organizations. For children. However, maybe this stream of negative is also a pre-prepared marketing campaign aimed at the promotion of the new work of Herest. After all, the more loud criticism, the more expensive its works will be sold.
Well, for the mass contemplation, this precious children's skull will first be put up at the end of this month in the Gagosian Gallery exhibition hall in Hong Kong.