When it rains, my day begins
After 24 hours of pouring rain you either drown, depressed, or start swimming, on the Hundertwasser’s boat, the Regentag. Your choice.
Chocolate Naive have all the odds against them. Located in the middle of the woods in Lithuania, under a motto “Less and Slower” (when the world keeps buzzing with “More, Faster, Cheaper”), a small manufacture produces gourmet chocolate from cocoa beans, and nurtures big ambitions.
Is it widely recognized that Damien Hirst is a master in shocking people by mean of animals preserved in formaldehyde or extra-luxury pieces of art. But once you get inside his retrospective at Tate Modern, you will realize that this time Hirst’s provocations will not only shock you.
Vulnerability is a way of presenting oneself to the others, the best measurement of our courage. There are infinite possibilities nowadays, by which we can mobilize literally thousands of people, or millions, by the force of our vulnerability.
After 24 hours of pouring rain you either drown, depressed, or start swimming, on the Hundertwasser’s boat, the Regentag. Your choice.
General art books dated 2105 will be as brutal about editing the late 20th Century as they are about almost all other centuries. Every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be a footnote.
Charles Saatchi
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Jamie Anderson had it right: learning great art can create great business. The artists – from Tintoretto to Picasso, from Joseph Beuys to… Madonna, or better still, Lady Gaga – have plenty of lessons to teach to the 21st century managers. Steve Jobs? Shut that book and drop in for a visit to Damien Hirst’s Retrospective at Tate Modern.
Hirst’s way to paint the polka dots might be an attempt to represent the apparent chaos of living into a larger plan which makes sense only if we observe it from the distance.
Full Channel4News interview with Damien Hirst.
In other words, intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
Erik Adigard
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To what extent do the animals exposed by Hirst differ from the ones on display at the Natural History Museum? Continue reading here.
Damien Hirst’s first ever British retrospective, with a new show at London’s Tate Modern. To be continued in the future articles.
People don’t like contemporary art but all art starts life as contemporary – I can’t really see a difference. Michelangelo was definitely getting that, everybody was getting it. I’m sure there were people in caves going, ‘I like your cave but I hate that crap you’ve got on the wall’.
Damien Hirst