Slovenian Damien Hirst

Artist

I am Damien Hirst. I am an unknown non-profit 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 but I am doing art by doing art and by doing so I am basically undoing art. I am undoing art by simulating the process of being an artist doing art but without applying any value (not even in money) to it. The art I produce as an artist means nothing and costs nothing yet is done in the same way a "meaningful" and expensive work of art is done. I am Damien Hirst and I am artistic.

Mission

My mission is to decrease the value of art expressed in money and increase the value of art expressed in the true love for it. I want art to be cheap but loved and admired. I want art to stop being exclusive and start being for everyone. I want art to belong to those who can see beauty in it and not those who can afford to buy it. I want art to make a difference. I want art to be fake, meaningless and cheap. Because only in this way one could learn to appreciate art for only one true reason - because it is art. I want our world to get infected by art. I want an art pandemic.

The ready-made artist

In 1917 a French artist Marcel Duchamp selected and modified an ordinary manufactured object. By simply choosing the object and applying a few changes to it the object became art. The ready-made art was born.

In 2009 some Slovenian guy selected a name of a famous artist and modified it by applying it to his own creative activities. By simply choosing the name of a famous artist and using it as his own he became an artist. The ready-made artist was born.

The definition of art

Art is what is bought as art. Everything that a person buys believing he or she is buying art and with the intention of buying art is indeed art. What defines art is therefore the act of buying something as art.