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Damien Hirst - Two Weeks One Summer
Opens: 23/05/2012 Closes: 08/07/2012
White Cube.
While his tanks, spot paintings, pills and other famous series get an airing at Tate Modern, Hirst presents his third show of 2012 at the new White Cube. The only sharks here are painted, as the artist attempts to channel familiar Hirst concepts onto canvas. Horribly misguided vanity project or worthy departure for the international star? Head to Bermondsey for a look.
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Time Out“The lack of variety is stifling...” Surely represent the most unwelcome skeletons in his closet alongside his photorealist pictures of circa 2005-08, also thankfully best left out of sight and so out of mind. These ill-conceived paintings don't help his case...
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The Independent“Hirst is a set designer, not a painter...” Sheer perversity makes you want to like these new ones, or at least to annoy people by affecting to. But as Brown Jug quickly proves, it cannot be done...
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Evening Standard“Hirst seems mystified by paint...” The guitar painting teems with the still life imagery which crops up throughout the show — jugs, fruit, stuffed parrots, butterflies and white spots against a moody blue background...
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Guardian“These are humourless parodies of paintings...” No encounter with a contemporary work of art has ever thrilled me like the day I walked into the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 and saw a tiger shark's maw lurch towards me. But these paintings are abominations unto the lord of Art...
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