Dialogue between Cons: #JulianSpaulding & #DamienHirst
My thoughts on the following review of the 2012, Damien Hirst retrospective by Julian Spaulding.
It stinks! Art critic Julian Spalding was banned from Damien Hirst's Tate exhibition after calling him a talentless conman... but we smuggled him in - and here's his verdict
Are diamonds forever?
This read was essentially a dialogue between two cons on a pedestal with juxtaposed agendas. Hirst and Spaulding are easily described as two sides to the very same coin. The work of Damien Hirst is absolutely art and not art. Spaulding's critique is both accurate and artless. Conceptual art is art that is conceptual. I suppose he would like to add "AND Julian Spaulding doesn't like it" to the history books". Regrettably, the system or systems that comprise an "art world" are directly reflected in works by Damien Hirst. The artist preserves these ugly truths in formaldehyde and bores us with them. Then in vogue, definitively exalts avarice and his own conceit. These are some congenital properties that constitute the art world’s fragile little matrix.
The inherent, cons and pros within these networks can be arduous for artists or anyone who loves art to navigate⎯and nearly impossible to avoid association. Especially, for the purists, idealists and egalitarians. Though, the art world, his authorities, principles, and properties are not sacred⎯it apparently may not even be in charge.
It stinks! Art critic Julian Spalding was banned from Damien Hirst's Tate exhibition after calling him a talentless conman... but we smuggled him in - and here's his verdict
This read was essentially a dialogue between two cons on a pedestal with juxtaposed agendas. Hirst and Spaulding are easily described as two sides to the very same coin. The work of Damien Hirst is absolutely art and not art. Spaulding's critique is both accurate and artless. Conceptual art is art that is conceptual. I suppose he would like to add "AND Julian Spaulding doesn't like it" to the history books". Regrettably, the system or systems that comprise an "art world" are directly reflected in works by Damien Hirst. The artist preserves these ugly truths in formaldehyde and bores us with them. Then in vogue, definitively exalts avarice and his own conceit. These are some congenital properties that constitute the art world’s fragile little matrix.
The inherent, cons and pros within these networks can be arduous for artists or anyone who loves art to navigate⎯and nearly impossible to avoid association. Especially, for the purists, idealists and egalitarians. Though, the art world, his authorities, principles, and properties are not sacred⎯it apparently may not even be in charge.
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