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There is an opinion that the artist can be either becoming rich or extremely poor. This can be applied to a person who will be told in this article. His name - and he is one of the richest living artists.

If you believe Sunday Times, then according to their estimates, this artist was the richest in the world for 2010, and its condition was estimated at 215 million pounds.

Creativity Damien Herensta

In contemporary art, this man occupies a "face of death". In part, this is due to the fact that it uses materials that are not used to using for creating works of art. Among them, it is worth noting paintings from dead insects, parts of dead animals in formaldehyde, skull with real teeth, etc.

His works are caused by people at the same time shock, disgust and delight. For this collectors from all over the world are ready to give a lot of money.

The artist was born in 1965 in the city called Bristol. His father was a mechanic and left the family when his son was in the 12th age. Damian's mother worked in the consulting bureau and was an amateur artist.

The future of the "face of death" in contemporary art was led by an association lifestyle. His twice was arrested for theft in stores. But despite this, the young Creator studied at the Art School in Leeds, and then entered the London College called Goldsmith College.

This institution was to some extent innovative. The difference from others was that the rest of schools simply took students who did not have enough skill in order to enter the real college, and the Goldsmith College collected many talented students and teachers. They had their own program for which it was not necessary to be able to draw. Recently, this form of study only gained popularity.

In the student years, he loved to visit the morgue and make sketches there. This place marked the beginning for his future works.

From 1990 to 2000, Damien Hirst had problems with drugs and alcohol. During this time, he managed to make many different antics while drunk.

Career staircase artist

Interested in the public Herst for the first time at the exhibition called "Freeze", which was held in 1988. At this exhibition, Charles Saatchi paid attention to the work of this artist. This man was famous magnate, but, in addition, he was an avid lovedant of art and collecting him. The collector acquired two works of Hurst throughout the year. After that, Saatchi often acquired artworks from Damien. You can count about 50 works that were bought by this person.

Already in 1991, the aforementioned artist decided to hold his own exhibition, which was called in and Out of Love. On this he did not stop and spent some more exhibitions, one of which was held in

In the same year, his most famous work was produced, it was called "the physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living". It was created on the means of Saatchi. The work that Damien Hirst was performed, the photo of it is slightly lower, was a container with a large-scale that is immersed in formaldehyde.

The photo may seem that shark is quite small length, but in fact it was 4.3 meters.

Scandals

In 1994, at the exhibition, which Demin Hearsh supervised, there was a scandal with an artist under the name Mark Bridge. This incident happened because of one of the works, called "fought from herd", representing a sheep immersed in formaldehyde.

Mark came to the exhibition, where there was a show of this work of art and inhibited the bank ink into the container and proclaimed the new name of this work - "Parsive Sheep". Damien Herst sued him to the court for the act of vandalism. In court, Mark tried to explain the jury that he simply wanted to add the work of Hearst, but the court did not understand him and recognized the guilty. The fine he could not pay, since at that time was in the poor, so he was given only 2 years of conditional period. After some time, he created his own "lousy sheep."

Damien merits

In 1995, a significant date happened in the life of the artist - he was nominated for the Turner Prize. Work entitled "Divided Mother and Child" served as the laureate of this award became Damien Heurs. The artist combined 2 containers in this work. In one of them there was a cow in formaldehyde, and in the second challenge.

Last "loud" job

The most recent work that caused noise is on which a lot of money spent Damien Herst. Work, whose photo already shows all its high costs, Damien Hirst has not yet been.

The name of this installation is "for the sake of love for God." It is a human skull, which is covered with diamonds. 8601 diamonds spent on this creation. The total size of stones - 1100 carats. This sculpture is the most expensive of all existing by the artist. Its price is 50 million pounds. After that, he cast a new skull. This time it was a baby skull, which was called "for God's sake." The material was used platinum and diamonds.

In 2009, after Damian Heurst held his exhibition "Requiem", which caused a stormy wave of discontent from critics, he announced that he had tied up with installations and would continue to be engaged in conventional painting.

Outlook on life

Based on the interview, the artist calls himself a punkey. He says that he is afraid of death, because real death is truly terrible. From his words, it's well for sale not death, but only fear of death. The views on religion is skeptical.

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.

Text: Ksyusha Petrov

Today in the Moscow Gallery Gary Tatinitzian opens Since 2006, the exhibition of Demien Hirst - a British artist, who is not in vain called "great and terrible", comparing that with the geniuses of the Renaissance, then with sharks from Wall Street. Hurst is considered the richest of the currently living authors, which only hesitates the controversy around his works. Since Charles Saatchi literally with an open mouth looked at the installation of "Thousand Years" - the spectacular and dark illustration of the whole life path from birth to death - the noise around the creative methods and the aesthetic value of the work of Hirst does not subscribe that the artist himself, of course, is only glad . We tell why the work of Hirst is really worthy of that huge attention that it goes, and we are trying to figure out the inner world of the artist - much more ambiguous and thin than it may seem from the part.

"Away From The Flock", 1994

Highs are now fifty-one, and ten years ago he completely refused smoking, drugs and alcohol - the chances are great that his career will last a few more decades. It is difficult to imagine that it can be the next step of the artist of this magnitude - Hirst has already represented his country at the opening ceremony of the Olympiad in London, shot a clip for the Blur group, made the most expensive work of art in the world (platinum skull with diamond inlays), in workshops on It employs more than one hundred sixty employees (this did not dream and Andy Warhol with his "factory"), and the state exceeds a billion dollars. The image of the scandalist, who glorified Hirst, to the crowd with his series of wicked animals in the 1990s, was gradually changed to a calmer: although the artist still loves leather pants and rinse with turtles, he has not been showing his penis to unfamiliar people, as did in the "Years of Combat Glory ", And more and more like a succeeding entrepreneur than on the rock star, although essentially is both to others.

Horste's extraordinary commercial success explains that he had more motivation to earn money than the rest of the participants led by the Association of Young British Artists (even during study in Goldsmith Hirst organized the legendary exhibition "Freeze", which attracted the attention of eminent gallery owners to young artists ). Hirst's childhood should not be called secured and happy: he never saw his biological father, stepfather left the family when the boy was twelve, and the Catholic mother desperately resisted her son's attempts to become part of the then very young subculture of Pankov.

Nevertheless, she supported his classes with art - perhaps, from hopelessness, because Hirst was a difficult teenager and all objects, in addition to drawing, was given to him with difficulty. Damien regularly came across in small thefts in stores and slept into other unpleasant stories, but at the same time managed to do sketches in the local morgue and study medical atlases, which were the source of inspiration to his beloved author - the gloomy expressionist Francis Bacon. Pictures of Beckon greatly influenced Hirst: grinned by the famous hurried shark resembles a revealed motive revealed in the cry, rectangular aquariums are constantly occurring at the baccon cells and fees.

A few years ago, Hurst, who never speaking on the field of traditional painting, presented a series of his own paintings, clearly inspired by the works of Bekon, "and cracked with a cracking: critics called the new works of Hirst with a pathetic parody of Master's paintings and compared with" Farremen's Mazniy, not served big hopes. " Perhaps these ulcer reviews and threw the feelings of the artist, but obviously did not affect its productivity: with the help of assistants performing all the routine work, Hirst continues his endless series of cloths with multi-colored dots, "rotational" paintings, created when scrolling paint cans in a centrifuge, Installations with tablets and industrial scales produces well-selling work.

← "Untitled AAA", 1992

Although Hirst has always said that money - first of all means for the production of art on a large scale, one cannot deny that he has an extraordinary talent for entrepreneurship - equal, if not exceeding the scale of the talent artistic. The Briton who does not differ in modesty believes that everything that he touches, turns into gold - and it looks like the truth: Even in the depressed 2008, the two-day auction of his works in Sotheby's who was organized by Hirst Hirst Himself surpassed all expectations and broke the record of Picasso auction. Hurst, and externally resembles a simple guy from Leeds, it is not shy to make money on items, it seems to be alien to high art - whether souvenir skateboards for six thousand dollars or a fashionable London restaurant "Pharmacy", decorated in the spirit of the "pharmacy" series of the artist. The buyers of the works of Hirst are not only graduates of Oxford from good families, but also a new layer of collectors - those who came out of the bottom and earned a state from scratch, like the artist himself.

The star status of Hirst and the dizzying cost of his work often interfere with seeing their essence - which is annoying, because the ideas embellished in them are not less than the sawn cow mascots in formaldehyde. Even in the fact that it seems to be 100% whale, Hersta is crying irony: his famous stolen skull with diamonds sold for one hundred million dollars is called "For the Love of God" (the expression that can be literally translated as "in the name of the love of the Lord", used As a tired man's curse: "Well, for the sake of all saint!"). According to the artist, he was pushed by the words of his mother to create this work, who once asked: "God forgive, what will you do next?" ("FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, What Are You Going to Do NEXT?"). Boots, with a maniacal pedantherapy laid out in the storefront, - a way to calculate the lifetime: like animals in formalin, and a diamond skull, sending to the classic plot Memento Mori, spilled cigarettes remind of the enormity of the existence, which is not able to cover our mind with all the desire. Both multicolored mugs, and cigarettes, and shelves with medicines - an attempt to streamline what separates us from death, express the severity of staying in this body and in this consciousness that can break into any time.

Claustrophobia / Agoraphobia, 2008

In his interview, Hirst is increasingly saying that in his youth felt eternal, and now the theme of death for him has many other nuances. "The buddy, my older son, Connor, is already sixteen. Several of my friends have already died, and I am older, "the artist explains. "I'm no longer the bastard who tried to spawn to the whole world." A convinced atheist, Hurst regularly returns to religious plots, ruthlessly overlooking them and once again stating that the existence of God is impossible as well as "death in the consciousness of the living".

A series of works with alive and dead butterflies embody the thinking of the artist about the beauty and its shortglow. The most clearly this idea is expressed in the installation "fall in love and break out" ("in and out of love"): several thousand butterflies hatch out cocoons, live and die in the gallery space, and their bodies sticking to the canvas remain like a reminder of the brotherhood of beauty. Like the work of the old masters, the works of Hursta preferably at least once to see live: and the daemetic "physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living", and the "separated mother and child" produce a completely different impression if you are standing with them. These and other works from the "Natural History" series are not a provocation for provocation, but a thoughtful and lyrical statement about the fundamental issues of human existence.

As Hirst himself says, in art, as in all that we do, there is only one idea - search for the answer to the main questions of philosophy: where did we come from where we are moving and is there any point in this? The hunting shark, inspired by the children's memories of Hirst about Horror "Jaws", is confronted by our consciousness with a paradox: why we are unlike our madly dangerous animal, because we know that she cannot bring us harm? Isn't that we feel, one of the manifestations of irrational fear before death, which always looms somewhere on the edge of consciousness - and if so, how does this affect our actions and everyday life?

Hirst has repeatedly criticized his creative methods and sharp statements: for example, in 2002, the artist had to bring public apologies for comparing the September 11 terrorist attack with the artistic process. The living classic condemned Hirst for what he makes work not with his own hands, but uses the work of assistants, and the critic Julian Spolding even came up with the parody term "CON ART", which can be translated as "conceptualism for suckers." It cannot be said that all the outrageous chips to Hirst were groundless: the artist was increasing at the plagiarism, and also accused of artificially winding prices for their work, not to mention the statements of the Company to protect the rights of animals, which worried about the conditions for the content of butterflies in the museum . Perhaps the most absurd conflict associated with the name of the scandalous British is his confrontation with the sixteen-year-old artist Cattrain, who sold collages with a photo of Hirst's work "in the name of the love of the Lord." The Multimillioner Artistores led away from a teenager two hundred pounds, which he earned on his collages, which caused a rapid outrage of the representatives of the art market.

← "Enchanted", 2008

Hirst's conceptualism is not so sulky, as it may seem: Indeed, the artist gives rise to the plan, and dozens of its nameless assistants are engaged in the incarnation - however, the practice shows that Hirst really worries the fate of his works. The case with the very wicked shark, which began to decompose, became one of the favorite jokes of the art world. Charles Saatichi decided to save the work, stretching the skin of long-suffering fish to the artificial frame, but Hirst rejected the converted job, stating that she no longer produces such a frightening impression. As a result, the spoiled installation was sold for twelve million dollars, but at the insistence of the artist, the shark was replaced.

Friend and companion of Hirst on YBA Mat Kolishou describes him as "Hooligan and Estette", and if everything is clear with the hooligan part, then they are often forgotten about the aesthetic side: perhaps, an extraordinary artistic sickness can be estimated only in the expositions of work from its extensive

Today, in the heading "Art in five minutes" we will talk about the most famous artist of our time - Demien Stephen Horst. We will deal with shark in formaldehyde with the help of a mebius tape, find out how medieval art echoes the diamond skull and let go to the transgression to find out if there is life in death.

Reference: Damien Hirst is an English artist, an entrepreneur, a collector of works of art, as well as the most famous figure of the Young British Artists group, dominating the art scene since the 1990s. Born on June 7, 1965 in the city of Bristol, United Kingdom.

What is the central theme of the works of Hurst?

Short: Death.

Read more:The fundamental confrontation between the denial of death and the awareness of its inevitability is the central theme of the artist. Hurst does not walk around, he goes inside the death itself. In order to thoroughly explore the topic, the artist went to the anatomical theater in his youth to make sketches and worked in the morgue.

Since Hirst has a lot of work related to death, we will consider the specific installation of the "Thousand Years" 1990 - one of the most significant works of the author. It is a double combined box: in the first avoir lies the head of the cow and an electric wobble, in the second - larvae and flies. 4 holes are cut in the partition between these cubes. The flies flying into the first cube immediately divided into 2 different groups: the first flew straight to the lamps and, touching them, immediately died, and the second part of the flies tried to take a place on the head of the dead cow.

The artist tells about it: "I remember, we sat somehow with Gary Hume, when I worked on this installation, he asked: "What are you working on now?". I replied: "Well, I have a glass box, the head of the cow, worms and flies. It remains to find a fly swatter that will finish them all." He looked at me as if on the crazy. And I thought: "Excellent. This is a great way to explain it, like something delusional - you just explain to someone so that they have already had an opinion. And this is despite the fact that they have no idea that it is actually so, so that they can not be prepared for what they see. "

This installation sends us to Donald Judde - the father of minimalism. The artist refuses traditional beauty, figurativeness, from any sentimental content.
In one of this work, Hirst imprinted the life cycle, he showed how orderly is the chaos of life and death.

It must be said that sometimes Hirst makes: once the Briton called the New York attacks on September 11, 2001 by the work of art, for which he subsequently had to apologize.

I will die - and I always want to live. I can't avoid death, and I can't get rid of the desire to live. I want to see at least a glimpse that it is - to die.

Hurst is the richest artist in the world?

Briefly: D.but.

Read more: P.oh at least, so they say all Western publications. The general condition of the artist is estimated at one billion dollars. Hirst sold a complete collection "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" at the Sotheby's auction for £ 111 million ($ 198 million), thereby breaking a record for auction with one artist. Also in the lists of the richest artists enter Takasi Murakami, Jeff Kuns, Jasper Jones. By the way, the approximate salary of Hirst assistants is $ 32,000.

What is the name of the style in which the artist works?

Short: Neoconceptualism.

Read more: Neoconceptualism or postconceptualism is a direction, which is a modern stage of development of conceptualism of the 60-70s. Neo-conceptualism arose in the USA and Europe in the late 1970s. Neoconceptualism, as well as conceptual art, first of all, is primarily the art of questions. Conceptual art continues to raise fundamental questions today not only about the definition of art itself, but also about politics, media and society. Mostly neoconceptualism is associated with the activities of young British artists who loudly declared themselves in the 1990s.

Large events

1991: Charles Saatchi finances Demien Hirst and the next year the Saatichi Gallery exposes his work "the physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of someone living" - shark in formaldehyde.

1993: Vanessa Bikroft conducts its first performance in Milan.

1999: Tracy Emin nominated for the Turner Prize. Part of her exhibition is the installation of "My Bed".

2001: Martin Cred receives the Turner Prize for the work "The Lights Going On and Off", an empty room in which the light turns on and off.

2005: Simon Starling receives the Turner Prize for "Shedboatshed" - a wooden building on which he flew over Rhine.

Hirst has painting?

Short:Yes.

Read more:Hirst has never been focused on painting, even at the beginning of the road, in the 1980s visiting the innovative College "Goldsmith". Unlike other schools who have collected students who failed to enter the real college, Goldsmith school attracted many talented students and inventive teachers. Goldsmith introduced an innovative program that did not require the ability to draw or write with paints.
But Hirst has three types of paint use.
First - It is Spot Paintings, colored circles that grow from Jeff Kuns. This project continues until now. Once, the artist opened at once in several cities around the world completely identical exposures, all the space of which was hung with paintings with multi-colored circles.
Second - This is Spin Painting, which implies a ridden circle to which the paint is poured, so the paint itself draws a dynamic canvas. The most famous creation in this style was the whole Olympic stadium. Khurst ordered to decorate the arena, and he spilled paint in the form of the British flag in honor of the opening of the Olympiad. But as we see, neither the first nor the second is painting, it is the use of paints without drawing.

People who scold modern art forget that any art was once modern.

The third - These are work in the style of Francis Bacon. Starting, Hurst himself said that he would not draw, because his paintings would be absolutely secondary, he realized his own epigionism. But for some reason he changed his mind and brought his painting to the personal exhibition "Requiem", which was shown from us, in Pinchuk Art Center in 2009. In addition to old works, the artist put up a new picturesque series called "Skull Paintings". They became the main target for sarcastic inversion critics. "It seems that in front of the viewer is the stylization under the baccon made by the student," - noticed one of them. Many of the critics of contemporary art believe that once, in the early 90s, Hirst was the undisputed leader of the New British ART and generally stood in the forefront of contemporary art, but the times were long passed, now yesterday's avant-gardeist turned into a supplier of superdrawn Kitcha - as Once to taste and in the minds of Eastern European and Asian oligarchs, and Hirst's paintings are just helpless.

And Hirst has a picture "for mom." It depicts fruits and flowers, without alluzia, reminiscence and mysteries. Just fruits and flowers. Because since he became an artist, his mother looked around him all the time that the son could not draw anything "normal". So he wrote, in fact, what could be normal than fruits and flowers?

Recently it turned out that Herst is locked in his garden Saraj and secretly engaged in painting there. "Animals in Formaldehyde no longer shock the public, much more surprises it when you take the brushes and canvas and return to the sources", - he commented on his shame for the modern artist.

Genius or fiction?

Briefly: K.ak was said in the Holy Scripture "Umpt - we know."

Read more:Hurst is uncomplicably rich and successful, besides, he is a contemporary - this is the perfect formula that generates many discusions around the works of the British.

Some critics consider the artist artificially created phenomenon with a bag of money instead of the head. Others, as we have already said, will donate his painting, pointing to the imitation of Bekon. But Julian Spolding went further, he considers Hurst to fiction and simply a non-artist, calling ironically con-artist, that on the one hand talks about deceased, since "con" in English means "fooling", and on the other - is a reduction From the word "conceptualism", which is funny. By the way, "CON" in English means another obscent value, something like a "member", so called Bill Gates in school, so if you try to create a folder on the desktop with such a name - you will not work. Try it right now.
Critics from the shore, where the grass is greener, find Hirst by a genius, which from the brody of everyday life aponeals the pure art of art with the help of ingenuity and advanced technologies. There is a lot of arguments, the most significant of which (referring to the historical discourse) is that he managed from the most ancient topic of "death" to create a completely new art. On the other hand, during a retrospective Hirst exhibition in MOMA, attendance increased by 20 percent, what other arguments are needed?

The Briton is so popular and ambiguous that other artists of him create art. Spanish sculptor Eukhenio Merino made an object depicting the suicide Damien Hirst: in a glass box stands on his knees similar to the British doll artist with a gun attached to a bloody temple. The object, as the Daily Telegraph writes, is called "4 The Love of Go (L) D". Thus, it beat the name of one of the most famous works of Hirst - inlaid to the skull diamonds ("for the love of god"), and the word "Gold" - "Gold": Briton is considered one of the most expensive artists of the world. Merino assures that herself is a fan of Hirst's creativity. He speaks about his object like this: "Of course, this is a joke, but this consists of a paradox: if he [Hurst] will end with him, then his work will be even more expensive."

In order not to tell the critics of this world, the Guardian correspondent was best expressed: "In the era of everything created, in the world where the eclecticism and money rule, Hirst is" the artist whom we deserve ".

Question from the PR manager Anastasia Kosireva

What is the difference between a shark in Formaldehyde Hirst from the animal in formaldehyde in biology lessons? Why is the first - art, and the second is not?

Short: "Because the first is in the gallery, and the second - no" (c) Hurst

Read more: Herst, of course, jokes, he is generally a very funny person, it can be seen on all his interviews. But we will talk seriously.
Installation "Tiger shark in Fomaldehyde" is called "the physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living". The shark caught a fisherman from Australia and sold it to the artist for $ 9.500. And the installation was sold in 2004 to a collector Steve Cohen for $ 12 million. Being near this shark, I remember the name of the novel Jonathan Fouja "terribly close, expectively loud." The ugly fall of sharks is widely disclosed, it creates a growing effect, screaming as a symbol of dying pain. The incomplete mouth of the shark refers to the pictures of his favorite artist Hursta - Francis Bacon. In general, Hurst could take any animal, but chose a shark not for the epadalization of society, shark is a source of danger and a symbol of death. Shark doubles death: she herself is dead and, at the same time - a carrier of death. The most unusual phenomenon at the shark - intrauterine cannibalism. About 70% of the shark dying in brutal battles right in the womb.

But the most important thing in this work is not a shark and not formaldehyde. It is important that this installation is in a stylist minimalist room, again continuing the tradition of Judda. The built-up contrast scheme between the abstract and durable form of the demonstration and its struck object filling. Art, "on behalf of" which is the form of a showcase, performs its traditional function here - stops the time.

In this paper, there is also a conceptualistic game in which the object object coincides with the image itself. Simply put, death depicts death. Such sense tape of Möbius, when the meaning of the work closes at itself, when the work about himself also tells.

Hurst about his work says so: "I'm trying to solve death. People are hard to realize their own mortality, and many of my work is about it. My shark attempt to describe this feeling, a sense of irrational fear before death. For this, I used the real shark, so large so that it could swallow a person Full. And placed it in a container with a liquid of this size so that the viewer goosebumps on the skin run. And this is not a gloomy look at the world. On the contrary, I hoped that death would serve as an inspiration and source of energy for the audience. "Helps to realize the holiday of life."

The question of the editor-in-chief Evgenia Lipovskaya:

Why did he chose butterflies as the main material? He killed them or collected dead?

Short:1. On the short life of the butterfly easier to show the life cycle, also the death of the butterfly is a very clear demonstration at the same time beautiful and terrible.

2. He did not kill them my own, but did not collect. Butterflies were brought from "special nurseries", and then died their own death in the gallery.

Read more:The most famous installation of the artist, where the main characters are butterflies, called "fall in love and break out." Butterflies flew freely in the gallery, which also had dishes with flowers and fruits. Since the butterflies are short-lived creatures, they drooped right in the middle of the exhibition. They hit the paintings and smeared, thus creating abstract work. The paintings were obtained by beautiful and sinister, because it is about the concentrated creatures. He then reached the point that from the real wings of the dead butterflies laid out stained glass for Gothic cathedrals. Initially, visitors did not know that the butterflies died along the exhibition, 400 new creatures were tied up every week. When the public it became known that 9 thousand butterflies died during the exposition - they began to attack Hirst. The opponents of the artist especially designed the fact that in the natural habitat of the butterfly could live much longer, up to nine months. However, the representatives of Tate on all reproaches answered one thing: for butterflies, the conditions close to their environment were created. By the way, butterflies brought cocoons, they were born at the exhibition, and died.

Initially, these were dolls scattered throughout the room, but after the completion of the process of metamorphosis, which appeared to the light, the exotic butterflies straight flew to huge canvases with alive colors. Butterflies were stuck on sticky cloth and died after a while, becoming part of the paintings. Moreover, there were huge ashtrays on the reverse side of the giant webs, to the edges filled with cigarettes.

There are also a series of "butterflies" and "kaleidoscopes", where, in the first case, the dead butterflies are glued onto a freshly made canvas without the use of glue, and in the second - they, tightly strip to each other, create patterns that resemble a kaleidoscope.

It should be said that the butterfly is not the only insect that Hirst turns into art. He has a job that is completely made of flies. That is, the canvas most closely covered flies, thus the artist created his own "black square".

The question from the Beauty editor of Christina Kilina:

Who bought this skull and how much?

Short: The consortium, which includes Hirst himself, his manager Frank Danie, head of the White Cube gallery and the famous Ukrainian patron Victor Pinchuk for $ 100 million.

Read more: The installation is called "for the love of the Lord" and is a human skull made of platinum and diamonds inlaid. According to Hirst, the name did the words of the mother inspired him when she appealed to him with the words: "for the love of god, what are you going to do next?" ("Tell me the mercy, what will you do next?" For the love of God - literally, a quote from the first message of John: "For it is a love for God" (1 in. 5: 3)). The skull is made of platinum, as a slightly reduced copy of the skull of a 35-year-old Europeans who lived between 1720 and 1810. The entire skull area, with the exception of the original teeth, is littered with 8,601 diamond with a total weight of 1106,18 carat. In the center of the forehead is the main element of the composition - the pink diamond of the pear-shaped form. The work cost a hurs in 14 million pounds.

In 2007, investment purposes, a group of investors, in which Hirst himself, his manager Frank Dani, head of the White Cube gallery and the famous Ukrainian patron of Victor Pinchuk, bought a skull for 50 million pounds (US $ 100 million). This is a record price paid for the work of the Healthy Artist.

"For the love of the Lord" - Synthesis of Kitcha, Pop Art, classics and the eternal theme of death. The skull is the extremely visual implementation of the classic theme of Western art Vanitas Vanitatum, the artist demonstrates that both money, and luxury is a tolend and fuss.

In essence, this work is a rather witty replica of Hirst about his own commercial success: Instead of going to disguise him, the artist puts it at the bottom - puts money into the creation of an object by the cost of 15 million pounds. And the fact that this object is a skull only emphasizes the triumph of the Religion of the Golden Taurus in the modern world.

However, the artistic public did not appreciate the self-disgraceful aspect of the new works of the English artist. In the era of ethically and politically concerned art, Damien Hirst became the figure odious, and a decent insider reaction at the mention of his name - the grimace of irony, irritation and boredom.

Hirst himself says that "This object symbolizes the wealth and value of life" and adds "By the way, the diamond skulls also that death decoration is an excellent way to reconcile with this idea."

My faith in art is little different from religious fanaticism. We all need to navigate something in the dark.

The statue of a decapitated demon height of 16.5 meters fills the Atrium Palazzo Grassi

For the first time in history, both Venetian exhibition spaces of the collector Francois Pinot are given under one exhibition. And none other than Damien Hurst, one of the most famous artists of modernity. The details of the exposition were kept secret to the discovery: it was known only that the new project was preparing for the last 10 years.

Damien Hirst, "Hydra and Cali" (two versions) and "Hydra and Kali under water (underwater photography of Christopher Georigka)." Photo: Rudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

On Sunday, April 9, the public finally got the opportunity to get to the Venetian exhibition of the British Damien Hirst. Exhibits for her he created under the cover of secrets during the last decade.

"Kronos, devouring your children"
Photo: Andrea Merola / AnSA / AP / Scanpix / Leta

"Treasures from the crash of the" incredible "are located in both Pinot Foundation Palaces - in Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogan. This is the first case in history, when both parts gave space to one artist.

The exhibition is represented as a multilayer treasure labyrinth from the ship, sunken 2000 years ago and found only in 2008 (coincidence, this is the year of the previous peak of Hirst career).

Damien Hirst, Hydra and Cali (fragment). Photo: Andrea Merola / AP

Damien Hirst.

51-year-old Damien Hurst is considered the richest of the now living artists of the world. He is the most striking representative of the Young British Artists Group (Britart), dominating in the art of foggy Albion last quarter of a century.

The work of Hirst "The physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of the living" (1991), representing a tiger shark in an aquarium with formaldehyde, is a symbol of this association.

The treasures of the crash of the incredible: Exhibition of Damien Hirst in Palazzo Grassi and the center of modern art Punta Della Dogana, Venice. Photo: Damien Hirst and Science Ltd

"Treasures from the crash site of the" incredible "is a multilayer labyrinth of sculptures, historical objects, photographs and video discovery and" detection "and" salvation "of invaluable cargo.

"Two Garudi"

According to the legend, the ship went to the bottom of the coast of East Africa.

"Demon with a bowl"
Photo: Andrea Merola / EPA / Scanpix / Leta

On his board was an extensive collection of works of art belonging to the liberated slave by the name of Sif Amotan II.

The meeting included the artifacts of all the civilizations known at that time and were sent to the museum island, where they were supposed to be displayed. The ship sank, and all his values \u200b\u200brestned to the seaside depths until 2008. Now these treasures appeared before us.

Damien Herst, "Five Nude Greeks", "Five Antique Torouses", "Nude Greek" (three versions).

Each exhibit at the exhibition is made in three copies. In the first version, it looks like a treasure raised from the sea day ("Coral" in the language of Hirst); In the second - as a saved relic, restored by modern restorers ("Treasure"); And in the third - like playing a pseudo-historical object ("copy").

Damien Hirst, "Cyclop Skull" and "Divers study the cyclop skull (underwater photography)."
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

There are huge bronze goddess warriors, nothing to do with similar marble busts and skulls of cyclops, prayer figures, tombs, tables, urns, showcases with shields, precious ornaments and coins.

Sculpture at the exhibition "Treasures of the sunken ship" Incredible "
Photo: Awakening / Getty Images

Hirst used many expensive materials - Malachite, Gold, Lapis and Nephritis - to create a museum assembly of artifacts, causing memories of the ancient world.

For consumer plausibility, many work are decorated with white worms and "corals" of incredible colors. The shipwreck theme is complemented by large-format photographs and very believable video frames with divers working off the coast of the Zanzibar archipelago.

According to ArtNet.com, in order to lower the giant bronze statues on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and then raise them, special rescue ships were hired.

Damien Hirst, "Stone Calendar".
Photo: Miguel Medina / AFP / Getty Images

Damien Hirst, "Unknown Pharaoh" (fragment). The model for this work clearly served American singer, rapper, producer, musician and designer Farrell Williams. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

It is worth noting that in all this carefully worked entourage flashes Farrell Williams musician, Kate Moss models, Singers Rihanna and Yolandi Fisser ...

Bust Taduhapp, younger wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III
Photo: Miguel Medina / AFP / SCANPIX / LETA

Not to mention the statue of Mickey Mouse in Punta Dogan. Damien Hirst himself appears in the bronze work "Bust Collector Sif Amotan II", hinting that he is not only the creator, but also a collector of works of art.

Damien Hirst, Sphinx (Coral version); Below - Damien Hirst, Sphinx ("Treasure" option).
Both photos: Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

According to the newspaper New York Times, large dealers - such as Gagosyan Gallery or "White Cube" - already bought part of work at prices from 500 thousand to 5 million dollars per copy. However, like most facts at the exhibition, this information is hidden under the cover of the mystery.

The exhibition of Damien Hirst "Treasures from the crash site of the" incredible "will be one of the central events of the Venetian Biennale and will last until December 3, 2017.