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damien hirst at white cube london

From:     el maco
Category: Art
Date:     03 June 2007
Time:     06:20 PM

Review:

Eurotrashy opening. Diamond skull you needed a ticket and queue to glimpse. Wasn't that bothered. 
Only the price is cool. The paintings of birth are terrible, just some average photorealism with no point 
to them. Downstairs he had copied himself with some animals bisected and big paintings of blood, 
scalpels, or diamonds and the like. This was more like it. Sad somehow that are greatest artist 
inspires no awe, people just think of him as a canny operator, not opaque like Warhol, not mystic like 
Beuys, not animal like Picasso, just a shrewdie, just well done for milking it, good on the boy made 
good. Would you like to meat Damien? Nah, not really, maybe if it would help me out, but no interest 
in what he thinks. Oh maybe cos he's so famous and rich, that must be interesting. Yes, OK.


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