For the love of God, This translates to Italian, from another era, to the exclamation of any grandmother, yet it is a work from 2007 by Damien Hirst, in the shape of a human skull. It's made of platinum and decorated with an impressive number of diamonds, 8,601 in total, including a pink, teardrop-shaped one on the forehead. To top it off, real human teeth are used. It represents a provocative nod to ancient relics in our churches, which, during the Counter-Reformation, lived in terror of sin and guilt, warning of the vanity of corporeal life and the splendour of eternal life. D.H., whose rebellious nature is remembered by all, hardened by a harsh, fatherless family and a depressed mother, has become what he is: a funereal, baroque artist. Triumphs of Death, but possessed of a sense of surprise, capable of clothing all its attention in the garb of the unforeseen and the unknown.
He notes what he achieved with his interview in the ”New York Times”, in which he declared that the mythical sale to a group of unknown investors was not true at all. The work has always been, and still is, located in a vault in London, at his disposal and his property. The balloon, The mythical White Cube is also involved, who would have mediated the sale.
Today, he tells us: “The sale never happened”. We cannot say whether he is telling the truth or lying. But his word is not credible, because we have no evidence, neither for nor against. It is irrelevant, what matters is that everyone believed the sale, for 100 million dollars, generating a clamour that no advertising investment could have achieved (for free) and now repeating it with a simple (sic) interview that reopens an old quarrel, about the egg and the hen, while showbusiness and media get going.
And that's enough!
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