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Postby jasperjoffe » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:14 am

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Re: damien

Postby jasperjoffe » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:27 am

or if you prefer dorment to searle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9180674/Damien-Hirst-Tate-Modern-review.html

searle: should have been better
dorment: better than you think
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Re: damien

Postby CAP » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:32 am

Well Dormouse seems to be playing the Catholic card here so I'm obliged to side with Surly.
A fiendish dilemma!
Haven't been to the retro, shan't be going.
But my sense is that the Hirst love-fest is well and truly over.
Here.
It's a shame it's taken this long to get around to a career survey for Damien. The whole fabrication/commission/installation thing has gone off the boil, Mike Nelson? Maybe but who wants to go all the way back to Damien at this point? But then he was a late-comer, (see Koons etc) it's only fitting he should be a late-goer.

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Re: damien

Postby CAP » Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:06 pm

And Hans Pietsch @ http://www.art.magazin.de seems to agree with me, amazingly. Pietschy! Google translate this item very roughly: Hirst now nothing more than an establishment bauble. Pietsch mentions Julian Spalding being barred from the opening and playing to the cameras with an "Art is about open debate" speech, while the Tate, typically is about shutting it out, maintaining denial. That much is clear to the Germans.

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