translated by Giorgina Arcuri

Damien Hirst, ex symbol of the Young British Artists, still has the absolutely particular ability to draw to himself the attention not only of the art system, but of the whole world. Everyone will remember the scandal caused by “For the Love of God”. For this human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds for a total of 1,106 carats, a group of anonymous buyers forked out 73 and a half million euros, against a valuation of 18.8 million dollars.
“For the Love of God”, the now famous work by Hirst presented at the White Cube Gallery in London, has levelled out a new road and the artist intends to go along it right to the end. The diamond-studded skull was a scoop, even for the various philosophical digressions stirred up and impressed on the relation between death and life, love, immortality and art itself.