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𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝗨𝗞'𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗙𝗧. 😱

When he's not preserving dead animals in formaldehyde or encrusting skulls with diamonds, Damien Hirst is known for his spots.

In July 2021, Hirst created “The Currency,” his first project involving NFTs. It consists of 10,000 unique watermarked, microdotted and hologrammed spot paintings.

Each artwork is numbered, titled, stamped, and signed by Hirst, with a watermark, a microdot and a hologram containing his portrait, and a title generated through AI using some of his favourite song lyrics. On each piece, no colour is repeated. 😲

Each image in the series was sold for the modest price of $2,000, but buyers had to choose between taking a physical painting, or an NFT that can be traded on cryptocurrency platforms.

All 10,000 paintings are represented at the gallery, suspended in perspex. The 5,149 works whose owners opted for the physical are greyed out, the pieces now no doubt cheering up walls around the world; the remaining 4,851 are tangibly there, ready for their multimillion-pound bonfire, due to begin in October. The painting pyres await them upstairs.

Hirst will set the works on fire himself at the gallery on October 11, a day before the opening of Frieze London, one of the world's biggest contemporary art fairs.

The Currency exhibition is open now at Newport Street Gallery, running until 30 October 2022.

What can you say about Hirst's move to burn the pieces which are sold as NFTs? Let us know in the comments. 👇

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/damien-hirst-the-currency-is-setting-fire-to-millions-of-pounds-worth-of-art-a-good-idea-12702712

𝗜𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲. - Christmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967

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