Harriet Sherwood “Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings to show art as ‘currency’” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/26/damien-hirst-to-burn-thousands-of-his-paintings-to-show-art-as-currency
ダミアン・ハースト*1の、自らの油絵を燃やすというプロジェクト。
Hirst, who was the UK’s richest artist in 2020 with a net worth of more than £315m, will destroy the artworks at his London gallery.He created 10,000 unique dot paintings in 2016, each with its own title, that were later linked to corresponding NFTs and sold for $2,000 each. Buyers were given the option of keeping the NFTs or trading them in for the physical artwork. “The collector … cannot keep both. This exchange is a one-way process, so choose carefully,” buyers were told.
Twenty-four hours before a deadline of 3pm Wednesday, 4,180 people had chosen to swap their NFT for a physical artwork, with 5,820 opting to keep their NFTs, according to Heni, a technology company focusing on the art market.
The alternative version is to be destroyed, with the physical artworks – oil on paper – going up in flames on a daily basis from 9 September.
Hirst’s project, titled The Currency, was an “interesting experiment”, the artist told Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor, in a YouTube video interview last year. “It’s an installation, really, but like a global one … The involvement of everybody is part of The Currency project. It’s as much about the movement of the objects as it is about the objects.”*2
*1:http://www.damienhirst.com/ See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88 See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20100606/1275839941 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20140808/1407512970 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/02/18/103349 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/03/31/085004
