Three Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the Guardian has found.
Hirst gave the third piece, a shark dissected into three pieces, the title Myth Explored, Explained, Exploded, 1993-1999. The same sculpture is on show at the Munich Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art. It said: “Formaldehyde works are conceptual artworks and the date Damien Hirst assigns to them is the date of the conception of the work. He has been clear over the years when asked what is important in conceptual art; it is not the physical making of the object or the renewal of its parts, but rather the intention and the idea behind the artwork.”
That may accord with a suggestion – denied by Hirst – that there was a concerted effort by his company to give the sculptures the appearance of artworks that had suffered from years of wear and tear. Sources told the Guardian that Science instructed employees to artificially age the sculptures, making them look as if they were made in the 1990s.
More recently, Hirst made seemingly muddled remarks about the origins of Myth Explored, Explained, Exploded The three formaldehyde works made in 2017 before the Hong Kong exhibition, however, raise a very different set of questions around whether Hirst has been sufficiently transparent about the origins of the works. The dove, twin calves or dissected shark were not refurbished formaldehyde works, and neither were they official editions or reproductions of earlier works.
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