For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum of an 18th century human skull decorated with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including diamond pear-shaped red located on the forehead known as the Skull Star Diamond. Skull teeth were genuine, and bought by Hirst in London. Artwork is Memento mori , or a viewer's death reminder. In 2007, the art historian Rudi Fuchs observed: 'The skull came out of this world, almost like heaven. It declares victory over decay. At the same time, it shows death as something much more endless. Compared to the sadness of the tearful vanity scene, the diamond skull is the victory itself. 'At a cost of Ã,  £ 14 million to produce, the work was placed on its first appearance at the White Cube gallery in London in a Beyond belief exhibition at a asking price of  £ 50 million. This is the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist.
Video For the Love of God
Production
The base for the job was a human skeleton bought at a shop in Islington. It is estimated that a 35-year-old European man lived between 1720 and 1810. The title of the work should have been inspired by Hirst's mother, who once asked, "For the love of God, what will you do next?"
Designed and carved by Jack du Rose and produced by jeweler Piccadilly, Bentley & amp; Skinner, 8,601 pawns-light weightless diamonds, weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats (221.236 g), over a platinum cast, covering the entire skull. In the center of the forehead is a pear-shaped red diamond, the core of the work. All diamonds used for work are said to be ethically sourced.
Hirst stated the idea for the work came from the Aztec turquoise skull at the British Museum. However, artist John LeKay, a friend of Hirst in the early 1990s, said the work was based on a skull covered by a crystal made by LeKay in 1993. LeKay said, "When I heard him do it, I felt like I was beaten in the intestine When I look at pictures online, I feel that part of me is in the section I'm a little surprised. "
Maps For the Love of God
Exhibition
On June 1, 2007, By the Love of God is displayed in an illuminated glass case in a dark room upstairs at the White Cube gallery in St James's, London with tight security. It was reported on June 11, 2007 that singer George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss were interested in purchasing pieces for around Ã, Â £ 50 million.
During November-December 2008, Hirst exhibited a diamond skull in the historic Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, amidst a public controversy. The skull was exhibited next to a painting exhibition of selected museum collections and curated by Hirst. According to Wim Pijbes, museum director, there is no controversy among the council members. He explained that the exhibition "will attract people - and give a new aspect to Rijksmuseum's image as well.It improves our image.Of course we do the Old Masters but we are not 'yesterday's institute'.This is for now.And Damien Hirst shows this in a way that very strong. "A Belgian journalist in response to comments on how the installation of diamond skulls in Rijks is" a project that is intentionally quite controversial ".
For God's Love is also displayed at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, and in Tate Modern, London between April 4, 2012 and June 25, 2012.
The work is featured at Hirst's first solo exhibition in the Middle East, at the Doha Relics Exhibition of Doha, from October 10, 2013 to January 22, 2014.
Between September 16 and November 15, 2015 the skull was on display at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway.
Sold
Hirst said the work was sold on August 30, 2007, for Ã, Â £ 50 million, to an anonymous consortium. Christina Ruiz, editor of The Art Newspaper , claims that Hirst has failed to find a buyer and has been trying to dismantle the skull for Ã, Â £ 38 million. As soon as these allegations were made, Hirst claimed he had sold them for the full price, cash, without a paper trail. The consortium that purchased the work included Hirst himself.
In the February 6, 2012, issue of Time Magazine, Hirst described, in his "10 Question" interview: "In the end I covered my production and some other costs by selling a third of that to an investment group, anonymous."
Harry Levy, vice chairman of London Diamond Bourse and Club, said, "I would estimate the true value of the skull as somewhere between Ã, Â £ 7 million and Ã, Â £ 10 million." Revenue and Customs Your Excellency will expect Ã, Â £ 8.5 million in VAT payments, if Hirst actually receives Ã, Â £ 50 million. David Lee, editor of The Jackdaw, comments: "Everyone in the art world knows Hirst has not sold a skull, it's obviously just an elaborate ruse to liven up the publicity and rewrite the book value of all the others working."
Media reporting and review
Media coverage of the diamond-shaped "sale" was extensive and caused some to question the extent to which the announcement of the sale was a kind of media art, largely because "sales" were being questioned. This is further supported by the performative nature of the Sotheby exhibition and the auction of Hirst's artwork the following year.
In an article in The Guardian, Germaine Greer said, "Damien Hirst is a brand, because the 21st century art form is marketing.To develop a brand that is so strong on a very striking thing is a very big reason creative - even revolutionary. "
Richard Dorment, art critic from The Daily Telegraph, writes: "If there is anyone other than Hirst who made this strange object, we will be struck by his dishonesty.It seems like things like Asprey or Harrods might sell for the visitors from oil countries with an unlimited amount of money to spend, little taste, and no knowledge of art I can imagine it decorating African dictator's living room or Colombian drug barons.But not just anyone succeeds - Hirst did Know this , we see it in a different way and realize that in the most brutal and direct way, For God's Love asks something about the morality of art and money. "
Ralph Rugoff of London's Hayward Gallery criticized the work as a mere decorative object, saying "It's not challenging or fresh, it's a decorative object that's not very well done."
Robert Preece, an art critic of the Sculpture magazine, writes about the sale of Hirst's work by Sotheby: "I do not care about the details of this sale. What matters to me is that they are announced - release , took, printed, reprinted, accelerated, translated, and multiplied throughout the global media. "Hirst's performative nature was then discussed in an exhibition at Tate Modern," Pop Life: Art in the material world, "which critic Ben Lewis finds particularly offensive: "... the text of the gallery has the courage to claim that greed - the sale of featured auctions is the work of the performing arts itself." That's like Stockhausen calling 9/11 a work of art. "
Artistic response
In June and July 2007, Polish artist Peter Fuss presented his work "For the laughter of God" at the exhibition in Gda? Sk and London parodied Damien Hirst's For God's love. The work is a plastic human skull covered with "artificial diamonds".
Photographs thrown in garbage bags outside the White Cube gallery are a joke by artist Laura Keeble who created a replica skull with 6522 Swarovski crystals.
In 2008, Gaelic publishers ÃÆ' â "¢ r-sgeul published a short story by Maoilios Caimbeul," An Claigeann aig Damien Hirst "(" Damian Hirst's Skull "), as a fictional response to the artwork. This was in turn followed in 2009, by one performed by the rock band Gaelic, Na Gathan, Claigeann Damien Hirst (Damian Hirst's Skull), released by ÃÆ' â "¢ r-sgeul, which was inspired by Caimbeul work. The song was selected in the NÃÆ'²s-ÃÆ'¹r contest for a new song in Celtic or Scottish.
In December 2008 Hirst threatened to sue Cartrainian artist for copyright infringement. Cartrain has included photos for God's Love in the collage and sold them on the Internet.
In 2009, Spanish artist Eugenio Merino launched a work entitled "4 The Love of Go (l) d" , a giant statue, wrapped in glass, from Hirst shot himself in the head. Merino, in fact admirer of Hirst, wants this work as a commentary on the emphasis on money in the art world, and with Hirst in particular. "I think it is, considering he is thinking a lot about money, the next job could be he shot himself," Merino said. "Such a value of his work will increase dramatically... Of course, he will not be there to enjoy it."
In popular culture
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See also
- Crystal skull
- Munditia
- Catacomb saints
References
External links
- frieze review on For God's Love
- Job creation drawing
- Interview with video
- Parodies of For the Love of God by Polish artists: Dead Drop Collector Glass, to be drunk, with the skull inside by Cute Cube Collective, For Laugh of God by Peter Fuss
- 1106.18 carats in grams
- Theoretical text of art featuring Hirst's 'For the love of God': Bergande, W.: "Liquidation of Art in Contemporary Art", in: Nordic Journal of Aesthetics no. 47 (2014)
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