Damien Hirst: assistants make my spot paintings but my heart is in them all
12 January '12 by the editors | Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
An exhibition, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, is currently being mounted simultaneously at 11 Gagosian Galleries around the world, including London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong.
Famously, Hirst does not produce the works himself.
But asked if it was true that he had painted only five of the 1,400 spot paintings in existence, and asked how he could justify putting his name to works made by others, Hirst said the questions were “totally missing the point”.
“It amazes me that I still get asked these questions,” he said.
“You have to look at it as if the artist is an architect, and we don’t have a problem that great architects don’t actually build the houses.”
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