Clearly Tate has a fantastic eye (and permission to scroll through
his studio, no doubt) when it comes to choosing works for the Diamen Hirst
retrospective. Great early works that showed how his practices and ideas
evolved over time – the colors, life/death, etc. The dead animals in boxes always
create awe. The live butterfly room was quite a treat to see. But perhaps he is
so overexposed, we are now numbed to even the greatest concepts since we have
seen it so many times, and he himself repeat it so many times too? The
“Sothebys room” was controversial – one where he sold work directly via auction
house instead of through galleries, and all those glitter, diamonds…is just
suffocated and certainly in your face. I recalled seeing his mother/baby sheep installation
in Saatchi Gallery and that was the first time I was intrigued by cotemporary
art. So perhaps indeed Hirst is part of the reason why I got started in
collecting now!
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