Critics are choking on Damien Hirst’s pill popping ‘Schizophrenogenesis’

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British artist Damien Hirst recently opened a new exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery, but the art critics are not feeling it. The Independent thinks that the “Wunderkid of the Brit-Art Nineties” is going backwards as he reaches his half century. Hirst is no stranger to working around the seductive allure of pharmaceuticals as it plays into a few of his favourite themes: mortality and death for one. In the past he has displayed entire walls of metal cabinets filled with pills and syringes, but those were only replicas. For ‘Schizophrenogenesis’ he provides us with scaled up, ‘sculptural’ editions of the same objects. Schizophrenogenesis is the technical name for an inception state of schizophrenia when a person first starts showing signs of the disease. Other art critics call his art watered down, aimed at ensuring the cash flow instead of being original. Decide for yourself after viewing the images below.

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