Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

Steven Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English collector artist, entrepreneur and art. He is the most eminent member of the group known as Young British Artists (YBA or) that dominated the art scene in Britain in the 1990s. He is internationally recognized artist and has had Britain's richest living with wealth valued at £ 215 million in 2010 to the Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely associated with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Death is a central theme in Hirst works.He became famous for a series of works of art in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved, sometimes have been dissected in formalin. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of a living person, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (window light) became the iconic work of British art in the 1990 and the symbol of the world BritArt. Also "spin paintings" created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings" which are rows of colored circles created by chance his assistants.

In September 2008 he took an unprecedented step for a living artist, selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever auction by Sotheby's and galleries around a long time. The auction exceeded all expectations, raise 111 million pounds ($ 198 million), breaking the record for a single artist auction record for Hirst and clean with £ 10.3 million for the golden calf, an animal with horns and 18-carat gold hooves, preserved in formalin.

In several cases since 1999, the sources of some of Hirst's works have been challenged and questioned as plagiarism, in articles written by journalists and artists, and in one case through a legal process that led to a settlement of the court.

Hirst has a series of contradictory statements to the media, including the September 11 attacks today, Hirst congratulated the attackers, according to which "must be given to them in some way." 18. September 2002, he "apologized unreservedly" for comments.