La France et moi, selon Hirst
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 06 April 2010
Damien Hirst has been spilling the beans on his love-hate relationship with French museums in the latest edition of our sister paper, Le Journal des Arts. "I was in discussion with the Louvre because I was thinking of showing my diamond skull [For the Love of God, 2007] there," says the Brit artist,"but the Louvre wants a new work. I was also in talks with the Pompidou Centre but that stalled because I had to put together an exhibition for the François Pinault Foundation gallery on the Ile Seguin. But that project came to nothing [the French billionaire abandoned plans to build a contemporary art museum on the island in Paris in 2005]." With a cheeky nod to the French, Hirst has just opened an exhibition at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco (until 30 September)—the sovereign city-state located in the south of France.
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