His father was a mechanic and car salesman who left the family when Damien was 12. His mother was a Catholic who worked in a consultancy office and was an amateur artist. She quickly lost control of her son, who was arrested twice for shoplifting. Damien Hirst attended art college in Leeds and studied art at university in London.
Hearst had serious problems with drugs and alcohol for ten years, starting in the early nineties.
Death is a central theme in his works. Most famous series artist - dead animals in formaldehyde (shark, sheep, cow...)
One of his first works was the installation “A Thousand Years” - a visual demonstration of life and death. In a glass display case, fly larvae emerged from eggs to crawl behind the glass partition to the food - rotting cow's head. The larvae hatched into flies, which then died on the exposed wires of the “electronic fly swatter.” A visitor could watch "A Thousand Years" today, and then come again a few days later and see how the cow's head has shrunk during this time and the pile of dead flies has grown.
At forty, Hirst was “worth” £100 million, more than Picasso, Warhol and Dali at that age combined
In 1991, Hirst created “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living” (tiger shark in an aquarium with formaldehyde)
"I like it when an object symbolizes a feeling. The shark is scary, it's bigger than you and it's in an environment that's unfamiliar to you. Dead it looks like it's alive, and alive it looks like it's dead." Sold for $12 million
Canned sheep cut lengthwise. A creature "frozen in death." Expresses "the joy of life and the inevitability of death." Sold for £2.1 million
"Mother and Child Separated." You can walk between them. In 1995, Hirst received the Turner Prize for it. In 1999 he declined an invitation to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale.
Hirst had a large "medical" series. At a trade show in Mexico City, the president of a vitamin company paid $3 million for "Blood of Christ," an installation of paracetamol tablets in a medical cabinet. "Spring Lullaby" - a cabinet with 6,136 pills arranged on razor blades sold at Christie's for $19.1 million
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Hirst's third major series is "dot paintings" - colored circles on a white background. The master indicated which paints to use, but did not touch the canvas himself. In 2003, his dot pattern was used to calibrate an instrument on the British Beagle spacecraft launched to Mars.
The fourth series - paintings of rotation - are created on a rotating pottery wheel. Hirst stands on a stepladder and throws paint onto a rotating base - canvas or board. Sometimes he commands the assistant: “More red” or “Turpentine”
The paintings "are a visual representation of the energy of the random"
A collage of thousands of individual tropical butterfly wings is created by technicians in a separate studio
An interesting story happened with one reporter who had an old portrait of Stalin hanging, which he had once bought for 200 pounds. In 2007, he approached Christie's with a proposal to put it up for auction. Auction house refused, saying that he was not selling either Stalin or Hitler.
- What if the author was Hirst or Warhol?
- Well then, we would be happy to take him.
The reporter called Hearst and asked him to draw a red nose on Stalin. He did so and added his signature.
Christie sold the work for £140,000
Text: Ksyusha Petrova
Today in the Moscow Gallery of Gary Tatintsyan opens the first exhibition since 2006 of Damien Hirst, a British artist who is not for nothing called “the great and terrible,” comparing him either to the geniuses of the Renaissance or to the sharks from Wall Street. Hirst is considered the richest living author, which only fuels the controversy surrounding his work. Since Charles Saatchi literally open mouth looked at the installation “A Thousand Years” - a spectacular and gloomy illustration of the entire path of life from birth to death - the noise around the creative methods and aesthetic value of Hirst’s works does not subside, which the artist himself, of course, is only happy about. We tell you why Hirst’s works are really worthy of the enormous attention they receive, and we try to understand inner world artist - much more ambiguous and subtle than it might seem from the outside.
"Away from the Flock", 1994
Hirst is now fifty-one, and ten years ago he completely gave up smoking, drugs and alcohol - chances are good that his career will last for several decades. At the same time, it is difficult to imagine what could be the next step for an artist of this magnitude - Hirst has already represented his country at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London, shot a video for the group Blur, made the most expensive work of art in the world (a platinum skull inlaid with diamonds), in workshops on It employs more than one hundred and sixty employees (Andy Warhol never dreamed of this with his “Factory”), and his fortune exceeds a billion dollars. The image of a brawler, which made Hirst famous along with his series of preserved animals in alcohol in the 1990s, gradually gave way to a calmer one: although the artist still loves leather pants and rings with skulls, he has not shown his penis for a long time strangers, as he did in the “years of military glory,” and looks more and more like a successful entrepreneur than a rock star, although in essence he is both.
Hirst explains his extraordinary commercial success by the fact that he had more motivation to earn money than the other members of the Young British Artists association he headed (while still studying at Goldsmiths, Hirst organized the legendary exhibition “Freeze", which attracted the attention of eminent gallerists to young artists ). Hirst’s childhood cannot be called prosperous and happy: he never saw his biological father, his stepfather left the family when the boy was twelve, and his Catholic mother desperately resisted her son’s attempts to become part of the then very young punk subculture.
Nevertheless, she supported his art pursuits - perhaps out of despair, because Hirst was a difficult teenager and all subjects, except drawing, were difficult for him. Damien regularly got caught with petty shoplifting and other unpleasant stories, but at the same time he managed to make sketches in the local morgue and study medical atlases, which were the source of inspiration for his favorite author, the dark expressionist Francis Bacon. Bacon's paintings greatly influenced Hirst: the grin of the famous shark preserved in alcohol is reminiscent of Bacon's recurring motif of his mouth open in a scream, rectangular aquariums are the cages and pedestals that are constantly found on Bacon's canvases.
A few years ago, Hirst, who had never played on the field traditional painting, presented to the public a series of his own paintings, clearly inspired by the works of Bacon, - and failed miserably: critics called Hirst’s new works a pathetic parody of the master’s paintings and compared them to “the daub of a freshman who doesn’t give in.” great hopes" These scathing reviews may have hurt the artist's feelings, but they clearly did not affect his productivity: with the help of assistants doing all the routine work, Hirst continues his endless series of canvases with multi-colored dots, "rotational" paintings created by spinning paint cans in a centrifuge, installations with tablets and on an industrial scale produces well-selling works.
← “Untitled AAA”, 1992
Although Hirst always said that money was primarily a means to produce art on a large scale, it cannot be denied that he has extraordinary talent to entrepreneurship - equal, if not superior in scale, to artistic talent. The Briton, not known for his modesty, believes that everything he touches turns to gold - and this seems to be true: even in the depressed year of 2008, a two-day auction of his works at Sotheby’s organized by Hirst himself exceeded all expectations and broke Picasso’s auction record. Hirst, and outwardly reminiscent simple guy from Leeds, is not shy about making money on seemingly foreign objects high art- be it souvenir skateboards costing six thousand dollars or the fashionable London restaurant “Pharmacy”, decorated in the spirit of the artist’s “pharmacy” series. Buyers of Hirst's works are not only Oxford graduates from good families, but also a new layer of collectors - those who came from the bottom and earned a fortune from scratch, like the artist himself.
Hirst's star status and the dizzying cost of his work often make it difficult to discern their essence - which is a shame, because the ideas contained in them are no less impressive than sawed-up cow carcasses in formaldehyde. Even in what seems to be one hundred percent kitsch, Hirst has an irony: his famous diamond-studded skull, sold for one hundred million dollars, is called “For the Love of God” (an expression that can be literally translated as “In the name of the love of God” is used like the curse of a tired person: “Well, for God’s sake!”). According to the artist, he was prompted to create this work by the words of his mother, who once asked: “God have mercy, what will you do next?” (“For the love of God, what are you going to do next?"). Cigarette butts, laid out in a display case with manic pedantry, are a way of calculating life time: like animals in formaldehyde, and a diamond skull, referring to classic plot memento mori, smoked cigarettes remind us of the frailty of existence, which our minds are unable to grasp, no matter how hard we try. And multi-colored mugs, and cigarette butts, and shelves with medicines are an attempt to organize what separates us from death, to express the acuteness of being in this body and in this consciousness, which can end at any moment.
"Claustrophobia/Agoraphobia", 2008
In his interviews, Hirst increasingly says that in his youth he felt eternal, but now the topic of death for him has many other nuances. “Mate, my oldest son, Connor, is sixteen. Several of my friends have already died, and I’m getting old,” explains the artist. “I’m not the same bastard who tried to yell at the whole world anymore.” A convinced atheist, Hirst regularly returns to religious subjects, mercilessly dissecting them and stating over and over again that the existence of God is as impossible as “death in the mind of the living.”
A series of works with living and dead butterflies embody the artist’s thoughts about beauty and its fragility. This idea is most clearly expressed in the installation “Falling in and Out of Love” (“In and Out of Love”): several thousand butterflies hatch from cocoons, live and die in the gallery space, and their bodies stuck to the canvases remain as a reminder of the fragility of beauty. Like the works of the old masters, it is advisable to see Hirst’s works in person at least once: both the memetic “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living” and “Mother and Child Separated” produce a completely different impression if you stand next to them. These and other works from the series “ Natural history“not a provocation for the sake of provocation, but a thoughtful and lyrical statement about the fundamental issues of human existence.
As Hirst himself says, in art, as in everything we do, there is only one idea - the search for an answer to the main questions of philosophy: where did we come from, where are we going and does this make sense? A shark preserved in alcohol, inspired by Hirst’s childhood memories of the horror movie “Jaws,” confronts our consciousness with a paradox: why do we feel uneasy next to the carcass of a deadly animal, because we know that it cannot harm us? Is what we feel part of the irrational fear of death that always looms somewhere on the edge of consciousness - and if so, how does it affect our actions and daily life?
Hirst has been criticized more than once for his creative methods and harsh statements: for example, in 2002, the artist had to make a public apology for comparing the September 11 terrorist attack to the artistic process. The living classic condemned Hirst for not making his work with his own hands, but using the labor of assistants, and critic Julian Spalding even coined the parody term “Con Art,” which can be translated as “conceptualism for suckers.” It cannot be said that all the indignant cries against Hirst were groundless: the artist was repeatedly accused of plagiarism, and was also accused of artificially inflating prices for his works, not to mention statements by the Society for the Protection of Animal Rights, which was concerned about the conditions of keeping butterflies in the museum . Perhaps the most absurd conflict associated with the name of the scandalous Briton is his confrontation with the sixteen-year-old artist Cartrain, who was selling collages with photographs of Hirst’s work “In the Name of the Love of God.” The multimillionaire artist sued the teenager for two hundred pounds, which he earned from his collages, which caused violent indignation among representatives of the art market.
← “Enchanted”, 2008
Hirst's conceptualism is not as soulless as it might seem: indeed, the artist gives birth to a plan, and dozens of his nameless assistants are involved in its implementation - however, practice shows that Hirst really cares about the fate of his works. The case of that same shark preserved in alcohol, which began to decompose, has become one of the favorite jokes of the art world. Charles Saatchi decided to save the work by stretching the skin of the long-suffering fish onto an artificial frame, but Hirst rejected the redone work, saying that it no longer made such a terrifying impression. As a result, the already damaged installation was sold for twelve million dollars, but at the insistence of the artist the shark was replaced.
Hirst’s friend and YBA colleague Matt Collishaw describes him as “a hooligan and an esthete,” and while the hooligan part is clear, the aesthetic side is often forgotten: perhaps Hirst’s extraordinary artistic flair can only be appreciated in exhibitions of works from his extensive
3 April 2012, 17:53It was he who came up with the idea of encrusting human skulls with diamonds and making art objects from the corpses of cows. Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) is a British artist and collector who first came to prominence in the late 1980s. Member of the "Young" group British artists", is considered the most dear artist in the world and the richest in the UK according to The Sunday Times (2010). His works are included in the collections of many museums and galleries: Tate, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, Central Museum Ulrecht and others. Damien Hirst was born on June 7, 1965 in Bristol, UK. Much of his childhood was spent in Leeds. After his parents' divorce, when Damien was 12 years old, he began to lead a more free lifestyle and was arrested twice for petty theft. However, Hirst was interested in drawing from childhood and graduated from Leeds Art College, and later continued his studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1986–1989). Some of his drawings were made in the morgue; the theme of death subsequently became the main one in the artist’s work. 
Damien Hirst is in a civil marriage with designer Maya Norman, the couple has three sons. Most Hirst spends time with his family at his home in Devon in northern England. 
Dream, 2008 Anthem, 2000 In 1988, Damien Hirst organized an exhibition of Goldsmith students (Richard and Simon Patterson, Sarah Lucas, Fiona Rae, Angus Fairhurst, etc., later they began to be called “Young British Artists”) Freeze, which attracted public attention. Here the artists, and above all Hirst, were noticed by the famous collector Charles Saatchi. 
Lost Love, 2000 In 1990, Damien Hirst took part in the Modern Medicine and Gambler exhibitions. He presented his work “A Thousand Years”: a glass container with the head of a cow, covered with corpse flies, this work was bought by Saatchi. From that time on, Damien and the collector began to work closely together until 2003. “I will die - and I want to live forever. I cannot escape death, and I cannot escape the desire to live. I want to see at least a glimpse of what it’s like to die.” In 1991, Hirst’s first solo exhibition in London, In and Out of Love, took place, and in 1992, the Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, which featured Hirst’s work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living”: Tiger Shark in formaldehyde. This work simultaneously brought the artist fame even among those who are far from art, and a nomination for the Turner Prize. 
In 1993, Hirst took part in the Venice Biennale with the work “Mother and Child Separated”, and a year later he curated the exhibition Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, where he presented his composition “The Lost Sheep” (a dead sheep in formaldehyde), which was renamed "Black Sheep" when the artist poured ink into the aquarium. Damien Hirst received the Turner Prize in 1995. At the same time, the artist presented the installation Two Fucking and Two Watching, representing a decomposing cow and bull. In subsequent years, Hirst's exhibitions were held in London, Seoul, and Salzburg. In 1997, Hirst's autobiographical book "I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now" was published. In 2000, the work "Hymn", shown on exhibition Art Noise, acquired by Saatchi, the sculpture was an anatomical model human body more than six meters high. In the same year, the exhibition “Damien Hirst: Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings” was held, which was visited by about 100 thousand people, all of Hirst’s sculptures were sold. Self-portrait: "Kill yourself, Damien" In 2004, one of the most famous works Hirst - "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living" - Saatchi sold to another collector, Steve Cohen. Its cost was 12 million dollars. 
"It's very easy to say, 'Well, even I could do that.' The point is that I did “it”
In 2007, Damien Hirst presented the work “For the love of God - a human skull, covered in platinum and studded with diamonds, only the teeth are natural. It was bought by a group of shareholders (including Hirst himself) for 50 million pounds (or $100 million), while the artist himself spent 14 million pounds on its creation. Thus, “For the Love of God” is the most expensive work of art by a living artist. “Investment banker in formaldehyde” Hirst is also a painter; some of his most famous works are the triptychs “Meaning Nothings”, made in the manner of Francis Bacon (some of them were sold before the opening of the exhibition in 2009), the Spots series (multi-colored dots on white backgrounds reminiscent of pop art), Spins (concentric circles), Butterflies (canvases using butterfly wings). 
Damien Hirst also acts as a designer: in 2009, he used his painting “Beautiful, Father Time, Hypnotic, Exploding Vortex, The Hours Painting” to design the cover of the album “See the Light” British group The Hours, and in 2011 he came up with the album cover Red Hot Chili Peppers "I'm with You". He has also collaborated with Levi's, ICA and Supreme and has designed covers for magazines including Pop, Tar and Garage. Hirst the collector owns a collection of paintings by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, and Tracey Emin. Tar Magazine cover, spring-summer 2009 (design by Damien Hirst, model Kate Moss 
Cover of Garage Magazine, autumn-winter 2011/2012 (photo by Hedi Slimane, design by Damien Hirst, model Lily Donaldson) Cover of Pop Magazine, autumn-winter 2009/2010 (photo by Jamie Morgan, design by Damien Hirst, model Tavi Gevinson) 
Red Hot album cover Chili Peppers“I’m with You” (2011) Clothing by Damien Damien Hirst X Supreme Skateboard Series, 2011 Works* In and Out of Love (1991), installation. * The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a tiger shark in a tank with formaldehyde. This was one of the works nominated for the Turner Prize. * Pharmacy](1992), life-size reproduction of a pharmacy. * Away from the Flock (1994), dead sheep in formaldehyde. 
* Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything (1996) installation. 
* Mother and Child Divided * "For the Love of God", (2007) Records by D. Hirst * In 2007, the work "For the Love of God" (a platinum skull encrusted with diamonds) was sold through the White Cube gallery to a group of investors for a record amount for living artists of $100 million.
Damien Hirst(eng. Damien Hirst, b. June 7, 1965) – modern English artist. One of the most prominent representatives of the group Young British Artists. Winner of the Turner Prize 1995. Estimates for 2010: the richest artist in the world.
Biography and creativity
Damien Hirst born in 1965 in Bristol (England). Grew up in Leeds. His father left the family when Hearst was 12 years old, and his mother was unable to control her son. In his youth, he was arrested twice for shoplifting.
Studied at art school at Leeds and then (after a two-year pause) at Goldsmith College (1986-1989), which at that time was considered innovative and offered an experimental training program, which attracted many talented students and teachers. At this time, he was very interested in the work of Francis Bacon, which was reflected in his future works. Even before completing his studies, in July 1988, he curated an exhibition "Freeze", which featured his own installations, among others. It should be noted that this exhibition itself was in many ways a project of 23-year-old Hirst and marked the beginning of both his own career, and the careers of a number of other artists, many of whom were also Goldsmith graduates. Here Hirst was first noticed by millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi, who was impressed by the artist’s work great impression. A year later, at Hirst’s second exhibition, he bought his work “A Thousand Years” and offered financial assistance in the creation of future works.
Installation "A thousand years" was a kind of system illustrating such global processes as life and death. Theme of death - key topic Hirst - already occupies a dominant position in this work. The installation consisted of a container with fly eggs, a rotting cow's head and an electric fly swatter. Larvae hatched from the eggs, crawled towards the food (the cow's head), turned into flies and died when they came into contact with the fly swatter. Over time, the installation changed - the head became smaller and smaller, and there were more and more corpses of flies, and the viewer, coming to the exhibition again, saw the entire process described above in dynamics, observing not only life's path flies, but also the result of this process.
With Saatchi's money, Hirst created a work called “The physical impossibility of death in the consciousness of a living person”. This work was a dead four-meter shark in formaldehyde. It laid the foundation for a number of similar installations, one of which is "Mother and Child Separated"(literally from English) “Mother and child. Divided") – was presented at the Venice Biennale and brought Hirst international fame. Here the viewer sees creatures “frozen in death,” something frightening and repulsive, something that is no longer alive, but still retains its easily recognizable appearance. So, for example, in front of the conventional viewer of the installation “Physical Impossibility...” there is no shark, it has already died and only its shell remains. But the “dead” is perceived by the viewer only as “inanimate”. He sees the “formerly alive,” interpreting the new object through the prism of what it once was, rather than guided by what it is now.
The theme of death, which sometimes turns into the theme of the transience of life, runs like a red thread through all the work of Damien Hirst. In 2007 he created a work called "For the love of the Lord!", which is sometimes called « Diamond Skull Damien Hirst" and which became known as the most expensive work of art living author. This piece itself is a copy of the skull of a 35-year-old European man, made of platinum and completely encrusted with diamonds. There is a pink diamond in the center of the skull's forehead. The creation of this work cost Hirst 14 million pounds sterling.
Despite conceptual framework Hirst's works, it is difficult to deny the deliberately scandalous nature of many of his works of this artist. Following dead animals in formaldehyde and the most expensive work of art in the world, we should mention the installation "In and Out of Love" or in this case "Inside and Out of Love"). There were chrysalises attached to the canvases on the walls, from which butterflies emerged. Entering the room, the spectators found themselves among these insects, which flew around them, landing both on the spectators themselves and on containers with fruit placed in the same room. The exhibition took place at the Tate Modern gallery and lasted 5 months. During this time, it attracted more than 460,000 visitors and became the most visited personal exhibition in the history of the gallery. Later information appeared that 9,000 butterflies died during the exhibition and this caused protests from a number of environmental organizations.
Damien Hirst's paintings can be classified as geometric abstractionism (example: series "Spot paintings") and (example: series “Spin paintings”)). The “Spots” series consists of paintings that depict circles of the same size, but different in color (the color is never the same), arranged in a lattice shape. The Rotations series consists of paintings that were created by pouring paint onto a rotating canvas. Hirst is also the author of a number of paintings that return us to the theme of butterflies: the Butterfly Color Paintings series consists of works where dead butterflies, which become the basis of the composition.
There is an opinion that an artist can be either extremely rich or extremely poor. This can be applied to the person who will be discussed in this article. His name is and he is one of the richest living artists.
If you believe the Sunday Times, then according to their estimates, this artist was the richest in the world in 2010, and his fortune was estimated at 215 million pounds sterling.
The work of Damien Hirst
In modern art, this person occupies the role of “the face of death.” This is partly due to the fact that he uses materials that he is not used to using to create works of art. Among them, it is worth noting paintings of dead insects, parts of dead animals in formaldehyde, a skull with real teeth, etc.
His works evoke shock, disgust and delight in people at the same time. Collectors from all over the world are willing to pay huge sums of money for this.
The artist was born in 1965 in a city called Bristol. His father was a mechanic and left the family when his son was 12 years old. Damian's mother worked in a consulting office and was an amateur artist.
The future “face of death” in contemporary art led an asocial lifestyle. He was arrested twice for shoplifting. But despite this, the young creator studied at the Leeds School of Art, and then entered a London college called Goldsmith College.
This establishment was somewhat innovative. The difference from others was that other schools simply accepted students who did not have enough skills to enter a real college, but Goldsmiths College brought together many talented students and teachers. They had their own own program, for which you did not need to be able to draw. IN Lately This form of training has just gained popularity.
IN student years he loved to visit the morgue and make sketches there. This place laid the foundation for his future themes of works.
From 1990 to 2000, Damien Hirst had problems with drugs and alcohol. During this time, he managed to commit many different pranks while drunk.
Artist's career ladder
Hirst first became interested in the public at an exhibition called "Freeze", which took place in 1988. At this exhibition, Charles Saatchi drew attention to the work of this artist. This man was a famous tycoon, but, in addition, he was an avid lover of art and collected it. The collector acquired two works by Hirst within a year. After this, Saatchi often purchased works of art from Damien. You can count about 50 works that were purchased by this person.
Already in 1991, the above-mentioned artist decided to hold his own exhibition, which was called In and Out of Love. He did not stop there and held several more exhibitions, one of which was held in
In the same year, his most famous work was produced, it was called “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living.” It was created at the expense of Saatchi. The work done by Damien Hirst, the photo of which is located a little lower, was a container with a large one that was immersed in formaldehyde.
In the photo it may seem that the shark is quite short in length, but in fact it was 4.3 meters.
Scandals
In 1994, at an exhibition curated by Damien Hirst, a scandal occurred with an artist under the name Mark Bridger. This incident happened because of one of the works called “Strayed from the Herd,” which represents a sheep immersed in formaldehyde.
Mark came to the exhibition where this work of art was being shown and in one motion he poured a can of ink into the container and proclaimed the new name of this work - " Black sheep". Damien Hirst sued him for an act of vandalism. At the trial, Mark tried to explain to the jury that he simply wanted to complement Hirst's work, but the court did not understand him and found him guilty. He could not pay the fine, because at that time was in a poor condition, so he was given only 2 years of probation.After some time, he created his own “Black Sheep”.
Damien's achievements
Happened in 1995 significant date in the artist's life - he was nominated for the Turner Prize. The work entitled “Mother and Child Separated” was the reason why Damien Hirst became the winner of this prize. The artist combined 2 containers in this work. In one of them there was a cow in formaldehyde, and in the second a calf.
The last "loud" work
Most last job, which caused a stir, is on which Damien Hirst spent quite a lot of money. Damien Hirst has never had a work, the photo of which already shows all its high cost.
The title of this installation is “For the Love of God.” It represents a human skull, which is covered with diamonds. 8601 diamonds were used for this creation. Overall size stones - 1100 carats. This sculpture is the most expensive of all the artist’s. Its price is 50 million pounds sterling. After that, he cast a new skull. This time it was the skull of a baby, which was called "For God's Sake." The material used was platinum and diamonds.
In 2009, after Damian Hirst held his exhibition "Requiem", which caused a stormy wave of discontent from critics, he announced that he had given up installations and would henceforth again engage in ordinary painting.
Outlook on life
Based on the interview, the artist calls himself a punk. He says that he is afraid of death, because real death truly terrible. According to him, it is not death that sells well, but only the fear of death. His views on religion are skeptical.
