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Mais un artiste qui souffre des complications consécutives à une maladie de diversification (‘diverticulitis’, dans le texte), qui sont le résultat de ses efforts comme sinistre spéculateur, par son cynisme grossier et par son intellectualisme constipé pour faire 11 expositions simultanées d’un travail exécrable sans le moindre intérêt… (Le Figaro, 20/01/2012).
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The opposite is Damien Hirst, who was able to declare “it has never been so easy to make art» (sic). Hirst who is presented by “Village Voice” as the richest artist in the world, a full-time businessman and half-time collector, and the most famous of Young British Artists, the creative group of the 90s. But this artist suffers complications consecutive to a diversification disease (‘diverticulitis’), as a result of his efforts as a sinister speculator, by his unrefined cynicism and by his ‘constipated intellectualism’, making 11 simultaneous exhibitions of an execrable work without the slightest interest … (Le Figaro, 20/01/2012). But, Hirst does not care about this, because for him, art is rather a subject of illusion, theater, entertainment, show, intriguing beauty, according to its own confessions. ‘Metteur en scène’ of its world, Hirst adores theater and he plays with all his energy.
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