Hirst's own contribution to the show consisted of a cluster of cardboard boxes painted with household paint. The show was visited by Charles Saatchi, Norman Rosenthal and Nicholas Serota, thanks to the influence of his Goldsmiths lecturer Michael Craig-Martin. He gained sponsorship for this event from the London Docklands Development Corporation. In July 1988, in his second year at Goldsmiths College, Hirst was the main organiser of an independent student exhibition, Freeze, in a disused London Port Authority administrative block in London's Docklands. Early career-student and warehouse shows While an art student, Hirst was an assistant at Anthony d'Offay 's gallery. I still can't get it out of my head." While a student, Hirst had a placement at a mortuary, an experience that influenced his later themes and materials. In 2007, Hirst was quoted as saying of An Oak Tree by Goldsmiths' senior tutor, Michael Craig-Martin: "That piece is, I think, the greatest piece of conceptual sculpture. He worked for two years on London building sites, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College (1986–89), although again he was refused a place the first time he applied. Davison created abstract collages from torn and cut coloured paper which, Hirst said, "blew me away", and which he modelled his own work on for the next two years. He went to an exhibition of work by Francis Davison, staged by Julian Spalding at the Hayward Gallery in 1983. He was refused admission to Jacob Kramer College when he first applied, but attended the art school after a subsequent successful application to the Foundation Diploma course. His art teacher at Allerton Grange School "pleaded" for Hirst to be allowed to enter the sixth form, where he took two A-levels, achieving an "E" grade in art. She did, though, encourage his liking for drawing, which was his only successful educational subject.
He says, "If she didn't like how I was dressed, she would quickly take me away from the bus stop". Hirst sees her as someone who would not tolerate rebellion: she cut up his bondage trousers and heated one of his Sex Pistols vinyl records on the cooker to turn it into a fruit bowl (or a plant pot). His mother stated that she lost control of her son when he was young, as he was notably arrested on two occasions for shoplifting. His stepfather was reportedly a motor mechanic. He never met his father his mother married his stepfather when Hirst was two, and the couple divorced 10 years later. Hirst was born Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds with his Irish mother who worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau. In one instance, after his sculpture Hymn was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised 16 times. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries. He has also made " spin paintings", created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants. The best-known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case.
#Minimalist wall art death horse series
He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep, and a cow) are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. ĭeath is a central theme in Hirst's works. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
The Damien Hirst Room at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmarkīrennan born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector.
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