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Fabulous bit if footage. Kusama is lovely. ... and then along comes Damien Hirst to pastiche dots like he invented them. and make more millions. why doesn't the man just exile himself somewhere far away?
Postcard from… Damien Hirst is realized in conjunction with Gagosian Gallery’s exhibition The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on 12 January, 2012. The exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Rome will be on show until 10 March, 2012.
EXCERPT FROM THE GUARDIAN, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 ARTICLE BY CHRIS BROWN
...She has been using dots in her art since before Damien Hirst was born. Asked how she felt about Hirst and his spot paintings, Kusama said she had been using polka dots since she was a child: "I have made it into a symbol of love and peace."
She added: "I love Damien Hirst, I respect his work a great deal and I am very happy that the polka dots that I started using [as a young girl] have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everyone joining hands to use them together in this way."
Having said that, Kusama also made what could be seen as a dig at Hirst. "People ask about art and commercialism," she said. "I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price that is the wrong way of doing it. You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork."
She added: "I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair, I've been doing it physically – it's hard labour – throughout my life."...
Fabulous bit if footage. Kusama is lovely.
ReplyDelete... and then along comes Damien Hirst to pastiche dots like he invented them. and make more millions. why doesn't the man just exile himself somewhere far away?
Postcard from… Damien Hirst is realized in conjunction with Gagosian Gallery’s exhibition The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on 12 January, 2012. The exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Rome will be on show until 10 March, 2012.
ReplyDeleteEXCERPT FROM THE GUARDIAN, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
ReplyDeleteARTICLE BY CHRIS BROWN
...She has been using dots in her art since before Damien Hirst was born. Asked how she felt about Hirst and his spot paintings, Kusama said she had been using polka dots since she was a child: "I have made it into a symbol of love and peace."
She added: "I love Damien Hirst, I respect his work a great deal and I am very happy that the polka dots that I started using [as a young girl] have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everyone joining hands to use them together in this way."
Having said that, Kusama also made what could be seen as a dig at Hirst. "People ask about art and commercialism," she said. "I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price that is the wrong way of doing it. You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork."
She added: "I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair, I've been doing it physically – it's hard labour – throughout my life."...