by Damien Hirst is involved in a plagiarism series after he has been accused of stolen the idea of using live flying in his breakthrough.
Hamad Butt, a classmate of Hirst at Goldsmiths University in South London, showed fly pieces at his study exhibition in June 1990, consisting of living flies in a display case.
A month later, Hirst reported reported a thousand years, a glass quarter full of living flying flies that lived on the head of a cow, which increased him to worldwide recognition.
Butt, which had not broken into the art world, died in 1994 at the age of 32 after developing AIDS.
Dominic Johnson, a curator who supervised a new exhibition of Butt’s work in the Whitechapel Gallery in Ost -London, claimed that “a thousand years seems to have been acquired directly by butt”.
Mr. Johnson, professor of performance and visual culture at Queen Mary University in London, claimed that he was “probably first handed from butt” in his development “, since butt generated a prototype in his studio in 1989.
It is said that Hirst showed a thousand years on his exhibition Gambler, which was opened in July 1990.
Butt believed that Hirst had acquired his idea and “unhappy when Hirst received more recognition”, Johnson wrote, according to Times, in the catalog of the exhibition in the catalog.
“Whether the appropriation was direct or not, butt decided to withdraw the fly piece from his subsequent installation [in November 1990]”He added.
Butt’s original works of art, which has been lost since then, was reproduced for the exhibition.
Hirst continued to produce organic art, especially animals that were kept in formaldehyde, including a pigeon, a couple of calves and a shark characterized in three pieces.
He dominated the British art world for two decades and became the richest artist in the world with an estimated net value of more than £ 300.
But allegations of the plagiarism have recorded the career of the Turner Prize Prize.
In 2010, an art magazine published an article in which he accused Hirst of producing 15 works that were “inspired by others”, including his work pharmacy. Charles Thomson, an artist and co -founder of Stuckists, a group that works against conceptual art has referred to the number of plagiarism claims in connection with Hirst’s work in the Jackdaw Magazine.
In 2007 the former friend John Lekay, Hirsts Diamond Skull, claimed from the love of God, was based on his crystal skull produced in 1993
Although Hirst has accusations that some of his works were the ideas of others, copyright protects no ideas, only a certain form of expression.
In 2000 it was announced that Hirst had paid an unknown sum to prevent legal measures for violating the copyright by designers of a toy that resembled his famous bronze sculpture Hymn.
The 60 -year -old Hirst has always denied allegations of the plagiarism, but admitted in an interview in 2018 that “all my ideas are stolen”.
He was contacted by the Telegraph for the comment on the latest claims.
