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The same year he was nominated for the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize, a coveted award he was finally awarded in 1995.
In 2012, the Tate Modern, London, held Damien Hirst's first museum retrospective exhibition. A little like the art world version of Jaws, this installation featuring a 14-foot tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde that capitalizes on the viewer's visceral response, a spine-tingling thrill one experiences in the presence of a good horror movie, knowing one is safely removed from the danger.
He has something to sell to almost anyone. Bacon, in turn, viewed the installation and rhapsodized about it in a letter to his friend. Merino, actually a great admirer of Hirst, told The Guardian, "I thought that, given that he thinks so much about money, his next work could be that he shot himself. For the past decade, he has focused heavily on butterflies, both as symbols and literal materials.
While the artist painted the earliest ones, later spot paintings continue to be produced by assistants under his direction, sparking questions about value. He said of the photograph, "I wanted to show my friends, but I couldn't take all my friends there, to the morgue in Leeds. A shrewd businessman, Hirst has transformed himself into a personal brand.
In September 2008, he took an unprecedented step for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, exclusively by auction at Sotheby's. Presented at the Venice Biennale, this was Hirst's international debut. As one viewer commented, "There's a terrific poignancy about them because their lifecycle is so short and they are vulnerable and delicate."
Installation - Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1991
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
This is the work that established Hirst as a major presence in the art world.
In addition to his own work, the show featured pieces by sixteen fellow students, including Fiona Rae, Sarah Lucas, and other emerging talents in postmodernist art. [and] exists in its own space." Jeff Koons's Total Equilibrium Tanks (1985), a basketball suspended in a glass case, is an obvious precedent for Hirst's work. In its focus on death, it hearkens back to the Memento Mori (reminders of mortality) images in European still life.
With all the trappings and none of the personnel, the space seems potentially sinister. For instance, after his diamond skull (For the Love of God, 2007) originally failed to sell for its £50 million asking price, British artist Laura Keeble created an inexpensive replica and photographed it in the trash outside London's White Cube gallery for a work she titled Forgotten Something? Similarly, in 2009, Spanish artist Eugenio Merino displayed a sculpture of Hirst in a glass case, shooting himself in the head, titled 4 The Love of Go(l)d.
Or the butterflies still being beautiful even when dead." He admitted it was, "a crazy thing to do when in the end it's all art." The previous year, Hirst had displayed a significantly gorier work entitled A Thousand Years (1990), a glass case with maggots feeding off a bloody cow's head, which attracted the attention of Charles Saatchi, who would become his most important financial backer.
These ideas are investigated in the installation Pharmacy(1992) as well as in the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ and ‘Instrument Cabinets’ which display a cornucopia of reflective, precision-tooled surgical implements within steel and glass cases.