A DANGEROUS ART Painting

A Dangerous Monkey: A Dangerous Art * 200x100cm - Oil on canvas * Feel free to request more pictures or videos through Saatchi Art Advisor team. * Continuing the "A Dangerous Monkey" series, I explore and make a humorous and aesthetically pleasing critique of the art of some of the richest and most media living artists on the planet. As you can see, the figure of the banana permeates this work and also many others to come. At first glance, the viewer with a slightly more limited repertoire (I'm not belittling it!) may just find the idea of ​​colored balls very pleasant. However, it is a caricature/parody (if I can call it that) of the ´Spots´ series by the British artist Damien HIrst. For those who don't know, Damien Hirst is one of the richest artists in the world, with an estimated fortune of over $ 400 million (2019, source: Artnet). He is also famous for works such as the shark in formaldehyde and the skull set with diamonds. In my work, the colored spots are proportionally larger than in Hirst's work. In doing this work, I felt like one of the countless 'assistants' that artists like him hire to do work that is considered boring. In fact, I can imagine the boredom of making thousands of colored balls, having made just a few. But it is then that I remember that Hirst sold 223 works of this series of balls for a total of US $ 200 million through Sotheby's in 2008. In September 2008. Doesn't that remind you of that period of the global economy?! The sale took place exactly the morning that Lehman Brothers closed its doors and the subprime crisis exploded in the United States and worldwide. The article "How Damien Hirst’s $ 200 Million Auction Became a Symbol of Pre-Recession Decadence" on the Artsy website reads very well about this. So far it´s "all right" However, amazingly, of the 1400 (!!!) works in the series, Hirst painted only .... FIVE. Five works from 1400! I know that Andy Warhol (ughhh) would have started (or became the symbol of) to produce works (xerox!) industrially, but will works produced in this way have the same value? Or does it really matter? According to Hirst, his assistants do the works, "but my heart is in all of them". And he adds: "Nobody questions architects who don't build their own houses". The point, if there is anything to be deduced from this without discouraging the new artists who still romanticize this profession, is that art with an individual capacity for expression and technical skill can be lost for good if we continue on this path that I believe is dangerous. The banana that I put between my spots comes to remind me once again of "Cattelanization" that has been going on for a long time. However, unlike Maurizio Cattelan, who in my opinion enjoys it directly in the face of idiots who applaud any shit, artists who don't even touch their own work and transform art only on stratospheric values ​​and increasingly bizarre speeches to justify works done by third parties interfere with the essence of what is in my view should be the maximum individual expression. But who am I to dictate what to do. In a relativistic world that has been showing itself to be unable to point firmly in any direction because "there is no right or wrong" in any fucking and increasingly shallow place that we are living in (in my opinion, my opinion!) maybe that is the future. And what a future huh. * An addendum: I don't think Damien is bad at all, generally speaking. There are works that I think are genuinely cool. My criticism falls perhaps more on the gear that drives all this and values ​​that defy any logic. * Eric Carrazedo * Follow me on Instagram: @CarrazedoArt

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:78.7 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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