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Yet his new project sounds like a big-budget Hollywood movie with a distinctly Hirstian title, “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.
“It’s a story of a ship, called the ‘Unbelievable,’ that sank 2,000 years ago,” Hirst said. “It was carrying a lot of treasures, sculptures, jewels and things like that, to create a palace. And it sank and was lost forever.”
Though this prehistoric Titanic is pure fiction, the artist will treat it as reality. He plans to stage the discovery of the ship, send divers to recover its many treasures, photograph the process and then make paintings based on the photographs.
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This sounds awful, but ingenious at the same time. Glad he’s back to the bawdy arrogant stance towards art in that he plans Sculptures will be based on famous works from art history, including Michelangelo’s “Rebellious Slave” at the Louvre in Paris. “I’ll predate them before Michelangelo almost like he’s seen them and copied them,” Hirst said. “I thought it would be a lot of fun to not know: Is this real? Isn’t this real? What is real? Am I real?”
Not so much any more, I’m afraid.
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I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Damien Hirst.
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