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Yet not everything about this almost mythical me-first artist translated directly into personal enrichment. There are those, like this memorialist, who earnestly contend that Hirst is singularly responsible for the raising of the Tate Modern, the sphinx-like rebirth of the Turner Prize, and—together with the bands Pulp, Blur, Oasis, and the lads at Manchester F.C.—for having tractor-pulled Britain out of centuries of insipid brown-sauce nostalgia. They and, no doubt, others will miss the passing of this colossal figure: the Alpha Tout who best represented the pluck and promotion of Cool Britannia. Although loutishly British, Hirst was the art world's huckster laureate. But expiring at the dawn of an era when money is no longer regarded as the exclusive, all-consuming subject of art, Hirst passed on before the wind fully changed direction and blew the froth back in his face. Had he hung on much longer, he would have found that he and his art had finally—in the time it takes an actual living human to give a shit about something, anything, other than money—gone from cool to tool.
Tha faux obituary is as valid an art form as anything produced by Hirst; this one has its moments, but could have been funnier. The comments above from "Outraged of Greenwich" (or whoever) are much funnier. It's sad that Hirst and his pals have produced so much constipation, but sadder that their supporters are so incompetent at defending them.
It is great to wake up and smell the coffee. Hirst has always been Barnum Balley's main event -- butterfly paintings and all. He isn't anymore dead now than he was when the first shark tanks appeared, it is just that maybe his critics and fans have woken up a bit. CVF being one of them.Congratulations.
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Witty piece, that although a time consuming bother, does summarize the flamboyance and undeserved fame of Hirst as undeniable copy cat and pop art wannabe, unveiled.
An unamusing, uninteresting, highly adolescent, shallowly smugnacious and egocentric "review". Embarrassing for the Voice and the writer. I have lost previous respect for both.
DAMIEN HIRST IS NOT REALLY DEAD.The writer of this article is only seeking attention and sensation.
I bow my head in respect for tastefully serving up fistfuls of smack to someone who decidedly deserves it. Kent/Stockholm
Did Mr Hirst sponsor this piece to boost publicity? -- to gain the fame of a dead, young artist while still alive?
The irony is that most of his auction sales are to himself, there aren't hundreds of collectors. Otherwise brilliant.
This b.s. story is a clear dereliction of duty as a writer. It's not witty or charming. It's just crap sensationalism to get more reader.
ummm...ok...should i say 'your momma' now..or what?
i think i am going to start a troll rights organization, because trolls deserve respect too.
art students deserve respect, not the disdain you so obviously have for them.
idealism of youth deserves respect too, and the romanticism that goes with it.
oh yeah, let's not forget civility...
but, i will accept your challenge...let's go toe to toe my friend...you get your best piece of artwork, and i'll get mine, we'll throw down and let the community decide...
i did not make this thing personal...my challenge to the author was about the argument he was making in the piece, and i found it confusing, as did some of the other commentators, especially given the provocative nature of the piece, it deserved some scrutiny...but you have made this personal, so i challenge you to show me your own work...people can see mine at kenvallario.com, i'm not here to spam, but you asked, so there you have it...show me your magic...
and i've had these kinds of arguments on the internet before...and from my experience the likelihood is about 90 percent that you will respond, that you won't be able to even follow your own virtual door-slamming technique...
discussion is how we rise from fools and become brothers...
What does this have to do with the former Liberian rebel leader and purveyor of all things creative, General Butt Naked? I find the relevence of loathing self grandizing promotional fluff attached to the authentic American prarie giberish, known to the great iconic buffallo lore to be in my opinion somewhat a slice of onion slices placed upon the meat of a expensive hamburger sold in some uppity hamburger salon on the upper west side of Downton Abbey.Examine the finite numbers of impossibilty only beknownst to the number jugglers,that being described as GOOGOOPLEX! These are my opinions and I endorse them to the fullest extent! Prid Quo Pro the Burt Reynolds archives.
Honestly, do you critics care nothing for the damage you might do to the private assets of multiple Hedge Fund Managers?
"I only painted the first five and I was like, 'f*** this', I hated it. As soon as I sold one, I used the money to pay people to make them. They were better at it than me. I get bored. I get very impatient." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/...
Quoted in Evening Standard as saying: "I only painted the first five and I was like, 'f*** this', I hated it. As soon as I sold one, I used the money to pay people to make them. They were better at it than me. I get bored. I get very impatient." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/...
Damien Steven Hirst, the world's richest artist at NW of $332 million died last week
I'm sorry but the fact the alleged death of the artist has NOT been in ANY news articles whatsoever, and he 'died' last thursday...AND he has a major exhibition coming up in London...suggests that he has not in fact died. The news of Damien Hirst's death would be all over the news right now, as Lucian Freud's was. Until a reliable source publishes information about Damien Hirst's death, I refuse to partake in believing this rumour.
wow, you called me a troll...and claimed i wasn't being a man...wow, the art world somehow has turned into a real macho macho environment...i made a critique of the article...this is my right...and it is something that the art world has become allergic to, because i suppose, it's bad for business...i will restate, as i've seen in at least one other comment, i liked the article, but i found the last paragraph suspect.
just because 'popular culture' deems a person a genius doesn't mean i have to comply...and i'm not the one who wrote an article about the artist's death...even though i think Hirst is a fraud, and that most of what passes for art today is fraudulent...that was not my point...my point had to do with presenting yourself as a critic of Hirst's gross materialism and apathetic misanthropy, and then creating a parachute at the end of the article...this is a valid criticism, and one that might be wrong, and i am willing to argue about that..but using the word 'troll' is equivalent to bullying in my opinion, it is a way to avoid discussion...it is in itself an aggressive act.
i don't have to be 'honest with the merits' of Damien Hirst, if i don't feel he has any...do you understand...this whole 30 year obsession with art as a reflection of the market is itself a sort of right-wing fanaticism...i am not the extremist...Hirst is the extremist, he is the perverse grandchild of Warhol, the artistic equivalent of Jersey Shore Vh1 nihilism...
people are awakening to the fact that wallstreet traders can be corrupt...government officials can be corrupt...why is it so hard for people to entertain the idea that we artists can be corrupt? are we that sacrosanct, that we are immune from honest critique of our principles? do we have no responsibilities to the public? i don't have the answers to these questions...but when an artist says openly that he wishes to produce 'bad art', i take him at his word...and i don't want to play that game, and i think the author should bow out of that game too..that is what i meant by covering his rear-end...
let's put the troll word aside, and if you wish to argue against my points, then great...let's engage in a platonic dialogue, that will bring us closer, and leave the inflammatory labels to the extremists, as you say, the tea partiers and taliban...i invite you to show me Hirst's merits and argue for them.
Of course you are in your right to write down your opinion Vallario, but you are too intelligent and educated to believe that Damien Hirst can be so easily dismissed as simply perverse or completely worthless.
You don't believe your own extremist words when you demand that the author should only point to Damien Hirst's faults and ignore his merits. And that's why we who read you can tell you are probably a guy who is just being extremist, exaggerating, bitching and complaining and being a bit of a "troll".
So lets just look at the facts: Any young artist who comes out of art school into today's competitive market and in just 20 years can create 332 million dollars by selling to the art world what ever he wants is with out doubt a remarkable person and could probably be qualified as a genius. Is Hirst an artistic genius? a marketing genius? a genius businessman? we have our opinions, its very all debatable, but we have to agree the guy is brilliant.
To have 332 Million dollars in your bank account naturally means your work generated a couple billion dollars in transactions and even bigger numbers in press, publications and in the general value assigned to the new found interest of the british public for contemporary art.
So without even talking about Damien Hirst's artistic work or the lack of it; We can safely say that the author Christian Viveros Faune, is completely right. Damien Hirst despite all his faults generated an unprecedented amount of value which translated into his personal wealth but also into the international awareness of british contemporary art and the general growth of galleries, museums, institutions, art schools, publications, and media. This growth of the arts naturally also benefitted generations of the people who worked in these areas.
So regardless of how good or bad Damien Hirst is or how good or bad we consider his work to be, we finally also have to admit that this little discussion here and the text by Viveros Faune are at the end of the day also born from the product of Damien Hirst's work...
...so Yes, lets celebrate and make fun of Damien Hirst's faults, lets criticize him out loud, call him names, but lets not question the character of the critic who simply points out to both the bad and the good he represents.
i'm not sure i'm following your argument...is your argument that I am a troll, which you have called me again, or that Damien Hirst is admirable.
To the first count...a consequence of the absurd commitment to that kind of relativism that has allowed the curatorial class to utilize the likes of Hirst and others like him to extract wealth from wallstreet execs who like to consider themselves cultured...a consequence of this, is that anybody who expresses a view that has just the slightest bit of 'moral' or even 'romantic' sentiment, given that art served a variety functions in its very long history...such people are labeled as extremists or trolls..instead of focusing on the nature of that 'value' you keep talking about...
you cannot both have a discussion about VALUES and not have a discussion about VALUES...
you are saying, that because i want to talk about the Value of Damien Hirst, that I am an extremist...that because i want the author to make a clear statement, to take a stand on Value, instead of playing it safe, that I am an extremist...
and yet, you are making a very clear statement of values yourself, one that i am asking you to defend..without, i might add, insulting you personally...
the inflation of markets, it seems to me, is never something to be valued...the creation of markets that cannot be sustained into the future, for the sake of immediate gratification is a dangerous and ultimately immoral aspect of the contemporary world that needs to be addressed, not with extremism, but with a prudent respect for universal human values...
like it or not, the creation of 'bad art', although it might serve in the short run to create a false wealth for a small number of people, ultimately leads to a public that does not trust the institution of art, tied as it has become to a set of nihilistic marketeers who have lost their sense of responsibility to society. the argument you have made to defend Hirst, that he has done a lot of good by generating Money, could be made to defend the wallstreet execs that used poor people's money to buy the art...
all that money is losing its value everyday because of the very practices we are talking about...money is, itself, a symbol of value...so, when wallstreet execs or a-hole artists attempt to purposely subvert its purpose, they are committing fraud, and by defrauding the values of our system of exchange, whether that exchange is monetary or intellectual, they are actually destroying culture and the civilizing forces that allow us to live a bit above our ape nature...so, yes, i am very comfortable saying that Damien Hirst is a bad artist...that his art has no redeeming values, and that the nightmare of this curatorial scam is about to be over...
it might seem i am averse to money...that i am some anarchist idealist...but i suggest the opposite is true...that by advocating for sincerity in the arts, for curatorial restraint and for an expectation of social responsibility, that I am advocating for a more sustainable and transcendent artistic experience that is ultimately more profitable and more inspiring...the alienation of the artists from one another has the affect of dis-empowering the most talented and visionary members of our social structure, and this alienation occurs when sincerity and a respect for the audience is degraded by a system of obedience and hierarchy that is unnatural to the creative type, leading to a need for 'bad art'...which is produced by those most comfortable with daddy figures...
i could go on, but suffice it to say, that i would like you to argue about why the work is valuable besides its monetary value, since that money is probably going to deflate very soon..what will be left my dear sir?
ummm...ok...should i say 'your momma' now..or what?
i think i am going to start a troll rights organization, because trolls deserve respect too.
art students deserve respect, not the disdain you so obviously have for them.
idealism of youth deserves respect too, and the romanticism that goes with it.
oh yeah, let's not forget civility...
but, i will accept your challenge...let's go toe to toe my friend...you get your best piece of artwork, and i'll get mine, we'll throw down and let the community decide...
i did not make this thing personal...my challenge to the author was about the argument he was making in the piece, and i found it confusing, as did some of the other commentators, especially given the provocative nature of the piece, it deserved some scrutiny...but you have made this personal, so i challenge you to show me your own work...people can see mine at kenvallario.com, i'm not here to spam, but you asked, so there you have it...show me your magic...
and i've had these kinds of arguments on the internet before...and from my experience the likelihood is about 90 percent that you will respond, that you won't be able to even follow your own virtual door-slamming technique...
discussion is how we rise from fools and become brothers...
You say you are not sure you are following my argument and you are right, you are not.
I made my arguments perfectly clear, if you couldn't follow them its because you didn't want to follow them, you preferred to find refuge in a cliched rehearsed bravado of a student monologue. I didn't even need to respond; you had already rendered that long boring and nonsensical answer of yours worthless as any kind of follow up to the discussion we had started.
You don't fool us, you are not a purist or an idealist, you are probably just another bitter and mediocre art student that's angry with the world because he is finally coming to terms with the reality that he can only play out his fantasy of being a real life artist or writer by trolling on other people's work.
And don't act so surprised by being called out as a "Troll" you should have expected that coming a long time before. After you initially publicly insulted the author of the text by calling him a "Monkey" you should at least expect a couple of people to jump in his defense and question your own intellectual range.
-Now that was the one question you actually did answer well. But Im sorry to say there's no points for you there either.
"Never discuss with fools or you will risk being confused with one". Im sorry I overestimated you, I was confused for a second. But I now know better and I am not wasting my time coming back here again... wouldn't want to risk being confused.
Goodbye little troll.
Can we play Twister with the plastic game sheet on the wall? Good? Bad? Lukewarm? Art? After many years I've not decided, however confronting the entire art world and challenging us to stand on gallery walls around the world to play his game is a fascinating "throw done" use of a global art exhibition and trumps his master Andy Warhol Whor-al. Remember Fred Astaire's famous dance on the four walls (in a movie who's name I forget)? We are all just doing the same with our eyeballs and our brains in Damien's Twister wallpaper. He's done it again - successfully tangling up Danto's and Dickie's Artworld. Like it or not, he's damn good. At what I'm not quite sure, yet.
これ、風刺だと思います。「全ガゴジアンギャラリーでドットペインティング展」を開催した事があまりにも「馬鹿すぎて」、まるで「アーティストのダミアン」が死んだという意味を込めています。
hihi, hirst but also cattelan are artists who are kicking away the ladder for young artists and actually frustrate building a public infrastructure for the arts. well, no problem for nyc, since that city's art institutions are already contaminated with the dirty money. incest art world, thank you very much ;-) excuse my english, i'm not a native speaker. http://tifx.wordpress.com/cate...
hihi, hirst but also cattelan are artists who are kicking away the ladder for young artists and actually frustrate building a public infrastructure for the arts. well, no problem for nyc, since that city's art institutions are already contaminated with the dirty money. incest art world, thank you very much ;-) excuse my english, i'm not a native speaker. http://tifx.wordpress.com/cate...
You came to bury Hirst, not to praise him. At least until the last paragraph.
Oh well, I was enjoying it thoroughly up until then.
Beautiful text once again by the great Viveros Faune.No one likes to get butt raped, even if its by an art and merketing genius. You can only cry wolf so many times. Hirst can go die or retire now.
talk about covering your ass at the end...what was at first an exhilarating and refreshing critique of an artist whose misanthropy we are all happy to wake up from...at the end you play politics and turn this critique into a brown-nosing twisted accolade, claiming that the man was reading the market perfectly...and thus you both raise up the golden calves of Hirst and the market at the same time, and expose your own commitment to both...your article is a typical post-modern form of self-protection, speaking from two sides of the mouth, so that one is never backed into a corner by having a position and really having to defend it...how clever you are...come on people, take a stand!
Hey Kenvalliario please don't troll on one of the few good critics out there today.Lets leave extremist black or white stands to the retards, the fanatics and the Tea Party.
Whether we like it or not, Damien Hirst is pretty much what popular culture would qualify as a genius. We can argue if Damien Hirst's field of brilliance is really art, business or branding. We can critique his ethics, his legacy or the true value of his work. We can even make fun of him, mock his work and celebrate his fall.
But in the same way we point out the faults, we also have to be honest with the merits. Otherwise we risk tainting all of our thoughts under a blanket of extremism and foolishness.
Dont be a troll Kenvallario be a man instead.
I find the number lacking a sense of decency more disappointing.
I'm a big fan of a lot of satire, especially the dark Dickensian Chris Morris sort. But this is badly misjudged.
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