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DO NOT BUY !!!!!

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C Hurst just the opposite it is not abused and bought a lot of money, contemporaries just ready for "new art" affirming that his purchases, vykladyvaya large amounts .. stories differ.

Damien Hirst set a new price record with an investment banker in formaldehyde "[22/10/08]
 
After a partisan struggle, waged by anonymous investoromi work, "Oh, a pancake" (Oh Shit) went for £ 2.5 billion thing, representing the employee (razzorivsheysya) company Merrill Lynch in a solution farmalina proved to be the most expensive in the history of banking business. There are rumors that the work was acquired for the closure of private exhibitions and is unlikely to be is shown by the public or auditors in the near future. Another piece - "Day of wages", consisting of the empty envelopes, which were expected to bestow some five thousand employees, was acquired by the administration of Price Waterhouse Coopers for a price far beyond that requested.
    Art critic Mathias Van-Lear Hirst congratulated on its decision to sell all these works, relating to his period of "financial meltdown".
... Meanwhile, Hirst's agent said he was satisfied with the price ... "While we are concerned, where you can reliably to attach a check for that amount"

(Humor & Satire)

Damien Hirst once again shocked the world of art-business [22/10/08]

Immediately after the mock auction in a particularly larg size, has brought $ 200 million for the canned animals and other items that are "must have" in the collection, Damien Hirst, not wasting time in vain, to declare another ambitious project.

Building on its recent commercial success, Mr. Hirst shocked the art world (consisting of himself, galleries, White Cube, his two buyers of billionaires and thousands of mediocre imitators), declaring that his next exhibition will present only an art object - namely, his itself.

While the details of works tentatively called "naked greed" remain unclear, Hurst said that he would like to put up for public auction zafarmalinennoe his body. It is not clear whether he himself farmalinit or prefer to work with a German professor Gunther von Hagen to be used to achieve better plastinizatsiyu rezultata.

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In any case, Hirst has hinted that inkrustiruet brillyantami one of the parts of his body, thus surpassing by urnovnyu own the same work - $ 100 million platinum brillyantovy skull. Asked what body parts he will encrust, Hurst showed the crowd the middle finger.

"The Future - excellent for all, - he said, adding, - only, perhaps, except me."
"Some so-called art critics have dared to suggest that I'm vain, superficial, mediocre character, concerned only with money and themselves. My next exhibition oprovergent all these conjectures. Hurst grabbed a look at a journalist who asked - as he was later going to pull itself out of the solution. "Obviously, you do not understand either art or an artist. I give her all the creativity that I have. I do not think it will be after the show. I'm paying people to do what I say and I suggest that you do also "

On the question of whether the White Cube or Sotheby's engaged in selling the work, Hirst said: "Be realistic. My life goes on. And how about yours?" He reported that his body with canned inskrustirovannym brillyantami middle finger will be put up on eBay with a reserve of £ 500,000 million

Russian tycoon, art collector and oil magnate and arms dealer Serge Zhugrev, they say, was willing to buy marinated /plastinirovannogo Hirst for his private collection. "It would be great to keep Hirst at his spiritual home, money-hungry Moscow" - a vague smell of vodka Zhugrev said. But the Russian is a serious competitor. There are rumors that the Vatican is using the services of a secret mediator will not allow themselves to beat.

Cardinal von Riesling, head of a complete set of the Vatican art collections, recently commented on the deeply religious order Hirst. "From us just escaped his" Golden Calf "and" Angel pig "at Sotheby's. But this time we are ready. We have 3,500 nuns from developing countries, arrayed in a row to put the bid on eBay at the last minute, and I already opened his account with PayPal ". The Cardinal won Riesling added that Hirst was Christ-like figure in contemporary art world and that its spiritual value can be fully appreciated only after his death. "Imagine how irresistibly towards us pilgrims, if we put the canned body Hirst with brillyantovym finger, ascension to heaven, in the case in Bazelike St. Peter ..." - Indistinctly uttered smelling roses Riesling.

A friend of Hearst, neprezvoydenny illusionist David Blaine, predicted that if the Vatican will become "naked greed", he will be able to do so that she will disappear within three days, leaving the Vatican with an empty showcase. "And do not be surprised if Hearst will soon be discovered paparazzi somersault with Galilean harlot with the initials MM. At this time there is nothing left Thain, believe me" - predicted Blaine.

(Humor & Satire)

Unprecedented in the history of Demian Hirst's auction of works scheduled for September 15-16 [13/09/08]

Covers the international English magazine The Times
 released in September, 2008 (Tyler Green)
Almost immediately after the announcement of the unprecedented Damien Hirst Sotheby's on September 15, which exposed more than 200 papers in 2008 goda, Hirst's dealer, the London gallery White Cube, opened the press about problems with the demand for works by the artist. Gallery has allowed publication of The ArtNewspaper familiar with the relevant accounting documents, according to which its stores remains unsold more than 200 works by Hirst for an amount exceeding $ 200 million includes 34 work with butterflies the 2005-2008 period at a price of $ 300,000 to $ 4 million, 35 spiral paintings 2005 - 2008 period ($ 800,000); seven paintings with circles 2006-2008 ($ 600,000 to $ 1.9 million) and six pharmaceutical cabinets ($ 200,000 - $ 5 million), one of which, "The agony of St. Jude" 2002-2003, according to the -all remain unsold in 2003.

As you know, Mr. Hurst did not create his works himself, preferring to use the services of assistants. Due to the relative simplicity of execution, the work done by them with enviable speed, chtomoglo lead to a glut in the market in the absence of a sufficient number of buyers. Through its unprecedented nature and obvious scandalous upcoming auction poses a marketing ploy, something resembling a story with Brillyantovym skull, which sold well and remains a big question. The fact that in practice the market the artist usually has no right to put to open auction is the number of papers in bypassing their dealers (in this case, White Cube and Gagosian) sa. This is due partly to the fact that the successful manipulation of demand in interesah of the same artist (and maintaining the balance of the price), the dealer must retain full control over the market. Any sale at auction - a certain kind of risk, especially when exposed to the trades is the number of works. The failure of the upcoming Sotheby's auction could have an impact on its dealers, provoking a drop in the total price of Hirst's work. The conflicting expectations of the outcome of the auction affected by the recent devaluation of shares of Sotheby's by 8%. Perhaps investors are based on the assumption that all who are still in need of the animals in formaldehyde for disposable prices, they have already purchased. Although there is room for doubt always.

Given the nature of the art market and the history of Brillyantovym skull on art sales market may be carried out in the absence of precise identification of the buyer. Damien Hirst is the richest artist in the history of Britain, whose fortune is estimated at $ 200 million to $ 500 million Some argue that he has spent about $ 200 million just for its own collection of art collection. Simultaneously, with the successful outcome of the upcoming auction of 223 works will be spent $ 117 million A small addition to the financial condition, but all the same.