Someone Named ‘Damien Hirst’ Launches ‘Damien Hirst: You Got to Love Art!’

To end this writer’s day on a fun and funny note, we turn to a weird batch of strange found by way of Transracial. It’s the blog Damien Hirst: You Got to Love Art! which is run by someone named Damien Hirst from the central European country of Slovenia. On the blog, it highlights new work by the artist with names like “The Tunnel of Love Imagined by a Stunning Supermodel Just Before She Leaped From Her Swank Downtown Apartment to Her Death in an Apparent Suicide,” which is an empty black film canister, and “A Not Too Absurdly Impossible Possibility of Imagining Life as the Absence of Life” which consists of three pieces of doll clothing. What’s most surprising is that each piece listed on the site is available for just £1. There’s also Nothingthing.com, wherein Damien Hirst explains his work:

I am Damien Hirst. I am an unknown artist from Slovenia. I am doing art by doing art. My art glorifies the futileness of being an artist. It’s a parody of the belief in nothing. My purpose is to demystify everything that was mystified in the name of art. Art is a religion and I am an atheist. My goal is the appropriation of art as an intellectual interpretation to reverse the process of applying artistic value to objects and concepts. I am not just doing art. I am doing art by doing art. Which means that I am basically undoing art. I am Damien Hirst and I am artistic.

If art can be a urinal, a dead animal cut in half or even human shit then everything opposite to that has to be art as well.

We’re not sure who is behind all of this (maybe these guys?), but it’s a really funny, impressive batch of work. So much so that even Hirst himself, assuming it isn’t really him to begin with, might enjoy and appreciate it.

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