“Unchallenged as the supreme artist entrepreneur of his generation, Damien Hirst has also dabbled with varying degrees of success in charity work, pop music and the restaurant business.
Now he has turned his attention to films as the “art curator” for Boogie Woogie, a long-rumoured satire inspired by the triumphs and excesses of Hirst and his fellow Young British Artists. Although the film is fictional and the characters are invented, one key scene revolves around an exhibition of work by Hirst, which includes one original spin painting and reproductions of many other works, including several of his “biopsy paintings”.
The artist, best known for his series of dead animals pickled in formaldehyde and his spot paintings, also selected art works by Tracey Emin, Banksy and the Chapman brothers, among others, to inject added authenticity into the art gallery scenes.
The film is adapted by Danny Moynihan from his dark comic novel of the same name, which depicts the art world as an incestuous jungle inhabited by heartless agents, controversy-courting artists and corrupt dealers”.
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