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Post by sleepboy on Nov 11, 2008 20:21:21 GMT -8
 $50,000 pounds for these spin-painted skulls. Edition of 50. |
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Post by devours on Nov 13, 2008 23:47:41 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Nov 29, 2008 11:00:03 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Dec 22, 2008 9:05:26 GMT -8
Damn, seeing all those skulls in that bookcase is impressive...
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Post by devours on Dec 22, 2008 12:26:59 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Jan 23, 2009 10:05:58 GMT -8
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.  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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Post by richardtharbaugh on Jan 23, 2009 10:20:30 GMT -8
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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Post by droow2 on Jan 23, 2009 13:30:55 GMT -8
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. 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. 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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Post by sleepboy on Apr 16, 2009 17:11:30 GMT -8
 Kate Moss by Damien Hirst for the new issue of Tar Magazine |
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 30, 2009 21:25:48 GMT -8
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Post by commandax on Jun 20, 2009 12:52:32 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Jul 13, 2009 13:39:10 GMT -8
I assume this print is an xray of his head. Worth 30,000 pounds? Probably not haha.  |
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Post by celluloidpig on Jul 17, 2009 21:10:32 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Jul 17, 2009 22:29:58 GMT -8
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: 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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Post by sleepboy on Aug 2, 2009 13:03:12 GMT -8
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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Post by sleepboy on Sept 14, 2009 17:07:41 GMT -8
A peek at some new decks from Supreme.  |
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Post by uglyblog on Oct 5, 2009 11:54:00 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 13, 2009 9:03:34 GMT -8
Nice interview about his show opening tomorrow with the Telegraph. |
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Post by commandax on Oct 26, 2009 20:24:29 GMT -8
Via The Guardian: " What Is Damien Hirst Really Up To?" "It is shocking to see an artist so successful in arguing that art owes nothing to its past, sacrifice himself to that past. Hirst's exhibition is a stupefying admission of defeat, a self-obliterating homage, that reveals the most successful artist of our time to be a tiny talent, with less to offer than even the most obscure Victorian painter in the Wallace Collection, let alone its Fragonards and Rembrandts. He reveals this because he chooses to meet them on their own terms, as a painter... [He] can't paint his way out of a paper bag. But don't kid yourselves. It is not just Hirst who is implicated in this exposure. It is an entire idea of art that triumphed in the 1990s and still dominates our culture – an entire age of the readymade stands accused by its own creator of being a charade. No critic has even come close to the total dismissal of 21st-century art implied by Hirst's turnabout. This call to order leaves me dumbfounded." |
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 26, 2009 20:53:04 GMT -8
Via The Guardian: " What Is Damien Hirst Really Up To?" "It is shocking to see an artist so successful in arguing that art owes nothing to its past, sacrifice himself to that past. Hirst's exhibition is a stupefying admission of defeat, a self-obliterating homage, that reveals the most successful artist of our time to be a tiny talent, with less to offer than even the most obscure Victorian painter in the Wallace Collection, let alone its Fragonards and Rembrandts. He reveals this because he chooses to meet them on their own terms, as a painter... [He] can't paint his way out of a paper bag. But don't kid yourselves. It is not just Hirst who is implicated in this exposure. It is an entire idea of art that triumphed in the 1990s and still dominates our culture – an entire age of the readymade stands accused by its own creator of being a charade. No critic has even come close to the total dismissal of 21st-century art implied by Hirst's turnabout. This call to order leaves me dumbfounded." Haha, I read that too. Ouch. Well, not unexpected. I didn't think they were that bad but I'm not a critic. |
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 15, 2009 9:14:36 GMT -8
He says he could be like Rembrandt, just needs practice haha. www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/14/damien-hirst-rembrandt-art-comment"Anyone can be like Rembrandt," he said. "I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. It's about freedom and guts. It's about looking. It can be learnt. That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice you can make great paintings." |
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Post by amin on Nov 15, 2009 11:34:02 GMT -8
hirst is a stain in the art world
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 26, 2009 15:17:20 GMT -8
Hirst x Louis Vuitton  |
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 14, 2009 14:19:37 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 13, 2010 16:26:12 GMT -8
It's kind ironic that Hirst's current show is at Monaco's Oceanographic Museum.    |
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