Disagree with most of this. Actually all of it.

The lack of discussion/ comments on here about this release is quite telling. Honestly, I think people had enough and are just tired of these types of drops

Although envy is a terribly unattractive emotion, I must admit feeling envious about your respective levels of certainty.



Just like at the supermarket, when faced with 25 brands of olive oil, Damien Hirst and HENI are leaving me somewhat paralysed by the options they have on offer with Where the Land Meets the Sea:

heni.com/primary/collection/where-the-land-meets-the-sea



In this respect, abundance of choice, which should at least in theory confer freedom and vivication to members of society, can in practice have the very opposite effect.


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After hours of anxious dithering, I finally got my purchase shortlist down to three Hirst pieces, each of them being a definite maybe:

(i)  Ha-ha! ;

(ii)  What on Earth Were You Thinking? ; and

(iii)  You Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It .



By tomorrow evening, I hope to have selected the perfect print to spend thousands of dollars on ("+ shipping and any applicable taxes").

I was so disappointed.  I was looking through some old art books and was reminded of Stingel's mountain paintings - this is what Hirst could have achieved, and was probably going for.  Instead his feel like cheap dime store reproductions

 Currency unique prints were on paper. Would much rather see more prints on paper released though. 

I do not collect works by Hirst but… I read almost all threads about his editions. I mean I tried to understand why some were fails, some were successes. My understanding is that when it’s beautiful, it reaches quickly high values : cherry blowsome, currency. In this case, the coulourful big formats (120 x 90) are very nice. You get nice splashes of joyful coulours and the dimensions are incredible when hung at the right place. The exhibit at Heni’s is a big fail, they are on too big walls. But in à nice living room, I think they would be very decorative. Furthermore, thé time of the release (mid of August, seriously?) and the lack of interest here should lead to low edition Numbers. If I had not already spent my yearly art budget, I would gamble on these ones

They are pointless, nobody needs those

I think the biggest issue with the seascapes is how derivative they are. See my post above about Stingel. These are basically the same as what he did in 2014 (which the NYT article itself reviewed as cliche) swapping black and white mountain peaks for wave peaks.

Hirst does have a reputation for using and adapting other people's ideas. He's quite successful at making them better. The Stingel comment is valid but I think the splatter works with the waves in a way that isn't the case for the mountain range. Once again improving whats been done before. I think it's harder to make the case for the coast paintings which are more traditionally abstract, a la Pollock but less so. There more colourful and I can see them being enjoyed more by art fans for that reason, but I think the artistic merit is in the seascapes, which is why I asked your view on it. 

Does hirst smoke? I know he's a man of a certain age (and ahem, fitness), but he appears to breathe in a worryingly laboured way on his videos.

Would you dislike them even more if you knew that the owner was red-pilled?

considering taht the 60 - 70% of people i heard told ''easy pass' i expect a total edition quite low.
For sure not the impressive numbers of the ''empresses''
my guess 1100 prints - all in.