Exhibition of paintings by Damien Hirst has set attendance record

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Despite unflattering reviews from critics, exhibition of paintings by the most highly paid British artist Damien Hirst has been very successful. As wrote in the Sunday, Oct. 18, The Daily Telegraph, exposition, which opened on October 14, only the first three days, visited by more than four thousand people.
Thus, the exposition of Hirst works in London's Wallace Collection (Wallace Collection) may become the most visited exhibition ever of more than century-old history of the Metropolitan Museum. According to the Wallace Collection, the museum experts believe that before the close of the exhibition of Hirst's "No Love Lost" (that is, until 24 January 2010) on 25 new paintings by the artist will come to see at least 100 thousand people.

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The previous record attendance Wallace Collection was installed about a year ago: the exhibition "Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster '", dedicated to the creativity of British multiplier of Sir Osbert Lancaster, was attended by more than 55 thousand people.

All pictures are selected for Hurst "No Love Lost", was written by him in the period from 2006 to 2008. Predominantly white canvases depicted a skull on a dark background. It is noteworthy that this exhibition was the first independent exhibition of the artist - while working on paintings Hurst never engaged the services of assistants and not used to create the paintings are no mechanical devices, as it did before.

Shortly before the opening of the exhibition in the British press published his review of "No Love Lost". Critics scolded preparing for the opening of the exhibition and called Hirst's paintings "insanely boring amateur daubs" and "unworthy of attention to this nonsense." Director of the Wallace Collection Rosalind Seville said that a very upset when she read these reviews.

"When I read the opinion of critics, I felt sick. Nevertheless, the exhibition of Damien has attracted the attention of people: every day to look at it now comes to the widow more visitors than usual. At the same time, many of them - these are the people who did not go would Wallace Collection, if it were not pictures Hirst, "- noted the companion publication.

Damien Hirst himself has not commented on the extraordinary success of such "No Love Lost".