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She's brilliant. The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel," he once said, according to Artlog. As one story goes, one of Hirst's assistants asked the artist for a spot painting. When she said she wanted one made by him, he responded, "But the only difference, between one painted by her and one of mine, is the money. Hirst sees the real creative act as the conception, not the execution, of art.
As the progenitor of the idea, he is therefore the artist. Of course, he's not the only artist who feels this way. Andy Warhol had a factory. Brainwash has a factory. Jeff Koons has a team of assistants, too.
He was part of a consortium that bought the work, a transaction that helped to maintain the market value of all his output. People close to Hirst seem just as confused about what drives him as he is himself. Yoga and his healthy lifestyle might help him to live longer, or just to die better. Hirst initially resisted the idea of an autobiography because he saw it as an end-of-life activity.
He has a lot on his plate — as well as Newport Street, he has elaborate, if secret, plans to unveil new work in — and the process of reconstructing his past has also been slowed by his own deficiencies as a witness to his own life. Little in his family background might have been expected to tempt him into the gallery in the first place, but art seems to have brought him much-needed moments of calm. Then it became the thing that ostensibly drove him faster.
During the boom years of the late s and into the next decade, Hirst was in perpetual motion. He expanded his studio system, started a publishing company, launched shops, purchased a string of properties in the UK, Mexico and Thailand — including a money pit of a stately home in Gloucestershire called Toddington Manor — and still found time to carouse.
Such feverish activity looks like the behaviour of someone for whom fears of mortality are visceral. Making skulls and hacking up dead cows kept death at a distance. Because if you really think about death, it makes you inactive. And the work was celebrating. And it was like I was immortal. Despite several false starts, and without the help of a step programme, he finally cleaned up in Most recovering addicts face the daunting task of taking greater responsibility for themselves; Hirst found himself at the apex of an empire employing between and people — at a high-water mark ahead of a Tate retrospective of his work, staff numbers soared to — with many more businesses in some way dependent on his continued high rate of output.
The machine used to be dirty, a scraggle of improvised studio spaces. I remember feeling guilty for those people. What have I done? Back to the pub. On a chill spring day, everyone wore matching Science Ltd T-shirts, wordless and focused, the silence punctured by the scrape of a chair on concrete and rock music, played not as Hirst would listen to it, but quietly in the background.
A room designed to create spin paintings stood idle, with buckets of paint lined up ready on a metal walkway above a giant centrifuge. Many of the workers are artists, but there are also technicians who know how to deploy formaldehyde, for example.
At one table six people added spots to the spot paintings that in recent years have featured the tiniest spots visible to the naked eye. Hirst visits the studio, sometimes several days in a row, at other times sporadically, to check on progress. These days he is a more reliable boss. One Dudbridge employee said Hirst has an attention to fine detail that can be demanding — and that his involvement in the work is intense — but he is courteous.
Staff turnover is low, and many people have been with him for years. Hirst currently lives and works in London, Goucestershire and Devon. His work is usually dramatic, gratuitous and divisive. Criticism of Hirst is characterized by one uniting assertion: the once distinct boundaries between high art and mass-production, virtuosity and chicanery, even the sacred and profane, become blurred to the point of incomprehension.
Reviews are unsurprisingly mixed. From the Telegraph :. Beyond contentious reception, there is a controversy of more specificity this year. The Salon writes:.
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