The Creation of Damian Hearst

1988, in the second year of Goldsmith College, Hearst became the main convener of the independent student art exhibition "Freeze", and was sponsored by the London Docklands Development Company to hold an exhibition in the abandoned buildings in the London Docklands. Influenced by Michael Craig Martin, a lecturer at Goldsmith College, many British heavyweight art critics, including Charles Zazie, Norman Rosenthal and Nicholas Celotta, have visited this exhibition. Hearst himself also exhibited a piece made up of cardboard with family portraits.

After graduation, Hearst participated in the exhibition "A New Generation of Contemporary People" at Kettles Yard Gallery in Cambridge. At the same time, he also approached Carsten Schubert in order to seek a broker, but the two sides did not hit it off in the end.

From 65438 to 0990, Hearst's friends Carl Freedman and Billee Sellman helped Hearst hold two important exhibitions in the abandoned factory in Bermondsey, London: Contemporary Medicine and Gamblers. Charles Zazie visited the second exhibition. According to Friedman, Zazie was "stunned" by an animal exhibition by Hearst-that work was "Millennium" by Hearst, and there was a corrupt cow's head and countless flies and maggots in a huge glass box. Zazie finally bought the work.

199 1 year, Hearst held his first solo exhibition in London: Love in Love Outside; He also held solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Emmanuel Perotin Art Museum in Paris. Hearst also called the exhibition "Broken English" held by the Snake Gallery.

Hearst met Jay Joplin. Joplin later became Hurst's agent. Zazie provided Hearst with funds to create whatever he wanted, and the results were exhibited in the exhibition "A New Generation of British Artists" at the Shaqi Art Museum in north London. 1992. Hearst's work is "The Physical Possibility of Death in the Living Mind"-a shark kept in a glass cabinet full of formaldehyde. The work cost a total of 50 thousand pounds, and the shark was caught from Australia and cost 6 thousand pounds. This work was also exhibited in 1000. Because of this exhibition, Hearst was nominated for the Turner Prize that year, but the final winner was the British sculptor Grenville Davey.

1993, Hearst participated in his first important international exhibition: Venice Biennale. His exhibition is "Mother and Child Separation", in which a cow and calf are cut in half and placed in formaldehyde glass boxes respectively. 1994, Hearst held the exhibition "Some are crazy, some are running away" at Sabentai Art Museum in London, and exhibited the work "Away from the flock"-a sheep locked in a formaldehyde glass box. During the exhibition, Kyle Brij, a 35-year-old artist from Oxford, poured ink into a box and claimed that his work was named "Black Sheep". Briju was subsequently prosecuted and sentenced to two years' probation; The repair cost of this project is 1000.

1995, the public health department of new york banned the exhibition of his work "Two Operations and Two Watching"; This work is a corrupt Niu Niu because it is "afraid of the audience spitting". In addition, solo exhibitions were held in Seoul, London and Salzburg. He also directed the MV of Country Road for Buller Orchestra; In addition, his work "No Absolute Sense of Corruption" was exhibited in new york Gaoguxuan Gallery. The short film "Idle" was exhibited in London, written and directed by Hearst and performed by Eddie Issa. In the same year, Hearst won the Turner Prize.

1997, the "Perception" exhibition opened at the Royal College of London, and "One Thousand Years" and other works of Hearst participated in the exhibition. As usual, Hearst's works have attracted a lot of controversy, but the audience's acceptance of the new generation of British artists has also increased a lot.

1998, Hearst's autobiography and art book "I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one-on-one, forever, forever, now" was published and received wide acclaim. He also formed a band named ":en:Fat Les|Fat Les" with alex james of Buller Band and actor keith allen, and his single Vindaloo (Portuguese Indian food) ranked second in the British single chart of 1998. Hearst also drew a color test chart for the "Beagle 2" exploration program, which Beagle 2 used to calibrate its camera after landing on Mars. He was also invited to participate in the Venice Biennale 1999 on behalf of the British Council, but he refused because something happened. He accused British Airways of infringing his copyright on the trademark design of the low-cost airline "Go".

In 2000, Hearst's sculpture "Hymns" was exhibited in the exhibition "Ant Noise (A Feeling of Confusion)" held by the Shaqi Art Museum. It is reported that Zazie bought this painting for100000. Hearst later accused himself of infringing the copyright of this sculpture. He made three copies of this sculpture and then sold them all. In September, new york held the exhibition "damien hirst: Model, Method, Approximation, Hypothesis, Results and Discovery". In three months, there were 654.38 million visitors, and all the works on display were sold.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the September 2002 10, 9 1 1 incident, I was interviewed by BBC:

"The whole incident of 9 1 1 has some similarities with artworks ... Of course, the visual effect of this incident is amazing, and you have to admit that they (the attackers who caused the incident) did something unexpected, especially for a big country like the United States. In some ways, their achievements deserve applause because they dwarf most people, even though it is a very dangerous thing. "

Within a week after the news release, Hearst's speech drew criticism from all walks of life. He then issued a statement through the company:

"I sincerely apologize for any unpleasantness I have caused, especially to the families of the victims of this terrible incident."

In April, 2003, the Saatchi Art Museum held an exhibition in London County Council, including Hearst retrospective. The exhibition further aggravated the tension between the two, and Hearst didn't even record the exhibition in his resume. The reason is that a work created by Hearst for charity-a mini with his trademark pattern is displayed in a serious way, but Hearst thinks it is only an improvisation. This incident also led to the cancellation of the retrospective exhibition to be held in tate modern. He accused Zazie of being "naive". "I'm not Charlie Zazie's monkey ... He only judges art according to the value of money ... He thinks he can influence art by the power of money, and he has always been stubborn."

In September 2003, "Romance in an Uncertain Age" was exhibited at the White House Art Museum in London. It is reported that the income from exhibitions and works is as high as110 million pounds, which increases his property to more than 35 million pounds. The statue "Charity" was bought by a Korean department store owner for1500,000 and displayed in his department store. This work is 6.7 meters high and weighs 6 tons. It's a little girl with polio, with an iron support on her right leg, a cat and a donation box. The donation box is broken. There is nothing in it.

A copy of Charity is on display in Haxton Square, London, in front of the White Square Art Museum. There are 12 glass cabinets in the basement of the art museum, representing the twelve disciples of Jesus. Each box is filled with bloody and horrible decorations, symbolizing the fate and experience of each disciple. Finally, there is an empty cupboard, which represents Jesus himself. Upstairs in the art museum, there are four small glass boxes filled with cow heads, scissors and sharp blades. Such works are regarded as "extraordinary spiritual experience" in the traditional Catholic image. At the same time, Hearst bought back his 65,438+02 works from Zazie, which is one third of Hearst's works in Zazie. It is reported that the total amount is as high as 8 million pounds. On May 24th, 2004, a fire broke out in the warehouse of Momat, an art storage and transportation company, which destroyed a large number of Zazie's collections, including Hearst's 17 works. The statue of charity was placed in the square outside the warehouse, so it escaped.

In July this year, Hearst talked about his relationship with Zazie: "I respect Charles. There is no bad blood between us. If we meet, we will chat, but in short, we are not good partners. "

At the end of the year, Hearst was commissioned to design a single cover for Band-Aid, which showed an African child squatting on the ground, but this design was not appreciated. The record company replaced it with a reindeer and a child standing in the snow.

In February 65438, The Indifference of the Living was sold by Zazie. The buyer was Steve Cohen, an American art collector and hedge fund manager in Greenwich, and the amount reached120,000 US dollars (6.5 million pounds), which was facilitated by Gargosian, Hearst's middleman in new york. Cohen then donated this work to the new york Museum of Modern Art.. Nicholas Celotta had hoped to buy it and exhibit it at the Tate Gallery. Hugo Swire, a member of the British Shadow Cabinet Art Department, even sent a message asking the government to try its best to keep his works in China. However, the current British art export regulations cannot restrict artists who are still alive.

In March, 2005, new york Gaoguxuan Gallery exhibited 30 paintings by Hurst. These works took three and a half years to complete, based on photos, supplemented by assistants, and were completed by Hearst himself.

In February 2006, Hilario Galguera Gallery in Mexico held Hearst's exhibition "Death of God, in order to better understand the ship without God's tools of life". This is the first time that Hearst has held an exhibition in Latin America, which has attracted extensive coverage from local media.

In 2006, Hearst's 1000 and four triptychs, including a new formaldehyde product: Loneliness, were exhibited side by side in Gagosian Gallery and Francis Bacon's triptych. The work Lonely Silence was inspired by Bacon.

Hearst is arguably the most expensive contemporary artist in Britain. Hearst once decorated a skull with 8500 diamonds, worth about 8 million-10/00000 pounds. After analysis, it is confirmed that the skull used belongs to a 35-year-old European who lived in 18 or 19 th century. The most precious thing in this work is a diamond placed on the forehead, weighing about 50 carats. This platinum diamond skull work is called "Love God". Hearst once said, "I just want to praise life by cursing death." What better way to cover up death than to use symbols of luxury, desire and depravity? " On August 30, 2007, this diamond skull created a transaction price of $6,543.8 billion, setting a record for the highest price of works by living artists.