Damien Hirst's time machine
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Date of artistic conception is date of creation, or not?
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Seems very misleading. I think he is lying if he did not think that people would assume that those works were made in the year that is on the title.
(BTW, why would someone pay USD$8MM for a shark in formaldehyde?????)
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That guy's worth $384 million. He's so rich he can delegate suffering for his art to others. His audience, mostly.
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Did the same thing with his paintings it appears.
At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.
...five sources familiar with the creation of the works, including some of the painters who put the dots to paper, told the Guardian many of them were mass-produced in 2018 and 2019.
Their accounts suggest at least 1,000 – and possibly several thousand – paintings in The Currency series were made during the two-year period. They were produced by dozens of painters hired at Hirst’s company Science Ltd at two studios, in Gloucestershire and London, in what one source described as a “Henry Ford production line”.
