Posts tagged damian hirst

Damian Hirst Spots Sharks and Maggots and Money (Jerry Saltz New York Magazine)- “Damien Hirst’s neo-Imperial military-industrial-aesthetic-economic 1%-spot-painting-complex opens at all 4211 Larry Gagosian Nike Towns around the globe (plus two outlets on Neptune). I’d love to own any spot painting (each is equally cheery, modern looking, and graphically optimistic). But you see one spot painting; you’ve seen them all (which may be one of their stronger Sol Le Witt/On Kawara-like aesthetic qualities). Whatever. Here’s my intro to the shows, an assessment of his career, a timeline of Hirstiana, price-charts (to make you more sick than you were before); and bitchy things written about him in the British press…Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism…”

Damian Hirst Spots Sharks and Maggots and Money (Jerry Saltz New York Magazine)- “Damien Hirst’s neo-Imperial military-industrial-aesthetic-economic 1%-spot-painting-complex opens at all 4211 Larry Gagosian Nike Towns around the globe (plus two outlets on Neptune). I’d love to own any spot painting (each is equally cheery, modern looking, and graphically optimistic). But you see one spot painting; you’ve seen them all (which may be one of their stronger Sol Le Witt/On Kawara-like aesthetic qualities). Whatever. Here’s my intro to the shows, an assessment of his career, a timeline of Hirstiana, price-charts (to make you more sick than you were before); and bitchy things written about him in the British press…Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism…”