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« Thread Started on Nov 11, 2008, 11:21pm »

$50,000 pounds for these spin-painted skulls. Edition of 50.

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« Reply #1 on Nov 14, 2008, 2:47am »

I do love that spin technique. If I had a spare $75k, I would own number 3 for sure. I assume there will be a run of lithographs after the skulls? I was surprised at the cost of his 'For the Love of God, Believe' print is. I guess since the edition was 1700, the cost is far less.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #2 on Nov 29, 2008, 2:00pm »

Old news but I guess it wasn't posted. Hirst laid off half his staff recently. Either because of "hard" economic times (although how hard can it be for him) or because he stopped production on the mass produced pieces like the "spin" paintings and plans to do more "painterly" ones. Or I guess it could be because of both reasons.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #3 on Dec 22, 2008, 12:05pm »

Damn, seeing all those skulls in that bookcase is impressive...

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« Reply #4 on Dec 22, 2008, 3:26pm »

Thanks for the video. I like how he has no illusion or long winded narrative about his skull and spin painting execution. Great to also see that he does not claim originality with this concept either, e.g aztecs.

I would still really love one though.

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« Reply #5 on Jan 23, 2009, 1:05pm »

Finally some news where he isn't a villian haha. It seems everyone is looking at that one auction he had as where the art market started crashing.

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He donates one of his paintings for charity and... publicity (oops, did i say that?) Two things I realized though. One is that those paintings actually look pretty damn nice, and Two is with it estimated to sell for £10,000, it really isn't outside the realm of possibility for one of us to own one. I wouldn't mind the market crashing a little bit more and picking up one of these on the cheap...that is if I start buying again haha.

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« Reply #6 on Jan 23, 2009, 1:20pm »

I saw a couple of these yesterday, and I think teh price was less than what this estimate says, but - they're simple spin art. I use to do these when I was 6... super fun - but not 10K+ material.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #7 on Jan 23, 2009, 4:30pm »

Jan 23, 2009, 1:05pm, sleepboy wrote:

Finally some news where he isn't a villian haha. It seems everyone is looking at that one auction he had as where the art market started crashing.

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By the way, if anyone's interested. That guy is Sir Bobby Robson, he's an ex england footballer/manager and a god round these parts.

Oh, and sleep, the pounds at the lowest v the dollar in 24 years!!

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #8 on Apr 16, 2009, 8:11pm »

Kate Moss by Damien Hirst for the new issue of Tar Magazine

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #9 on May 1, 2009, 12:25am »

Damien Hirst opened his biggest show yet. A retrospective in the Ukraine. More pics here.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #10 on Jun 20, 2009, 3:52pm »

After reading Jerry Saltz's entertaining review of the Venice Bienniale, I decided to go back and peruse some of his older reviews from the Village Voice and New York magazine. I found this review of a 2005 Damien Hirst show pretty hilarious:

"Every painting is sold, which isn't surprising in these times when collectors buy what other collectors buy, advisers sell art over the phone and artists wonder if their prices should be higher. Buyers get a placeholder: A painting by a big name with a big price tag that presumably will command an even higher resale value. Hirst & Co. have created a perfidious feedback loop where everyone gets to snicker at everyone else. We sneer at Hirst, his dealers and his collectors for having bad taste and bad values; they scoff at us for being old-fashioned, out-of-the-money sourpusses. We all tell ourselves what we already know. The only thing at stake is gamesmanship.

Worse than the paintings because it's permanent -- not to mention marring the entrance to the beautiful Lever House on Park Avenue -- is Hirst's hideous Virgin Mother, a 35-foot bronze eyesore of a naked pregnant woman with a cutaway view of her womb. Here, Hirst is doing what he's always done: trying to imitate Jeff Koons. He put things in vitrines after Koons did and started painting realistically after Koons. In attempting to equal Koons's stunning Puppy, Hirst has created something even more revolting than Jim Dine's figures on Sixth Avenue. Virgin Mother should be removed straightaway and those responsible for placing it here should be fired or whatever is done with reckless, imbecilic billionaires."

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #11 on Jul 13, 2009, 4:39pm »

I assume this print is an xray of his head. Worth 30,000 pounds? Probably not haha.

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #12 on Jul 18, 2009, 12:10am »

If you haven't seen it yet, here's the bike Lance Armstrong will be using in the final stage of the Tour de France:

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #13 on Jul 18, 2009, 1:29am »

Jul 18, 2009, 12:10am, celluloidpig wrote:

If you haven't seen it yet, here's the bike Lance Armstrong will be using in the final stage of the Tour de France:

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Here are the wheels. I'm kind disappointed. I thought he would do something else like his spin or dot paintings...

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Re: Damien Hirst
« Reply #14 on Aug 2, 2009, 4:03pm »

Looks like he will be having a show of just paintings this October. I'm kinda digging this one...but I'm a sucker for blue colored paintings...

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