{"id":9536,"date":"2019-01-06T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2019-01-11T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:20:30","slug":"the-undersea-world-of-damien-hirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/06\/the-undersea-world-of-damien-hirst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undersea World of Damien Hirst"},"content":{"rendered":"

from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Damien Hirst Created a Fake Documentary About His Fake Venice Show\u2014and Now You Can See It on Netflix<\/h1>\n

The film, financed by the artist himself, seeks to re-enact the fictional backstory behind the divisive show.<\/p>\n

Julia Halperin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"One of Damien Hirst\u2019s \u201cfound treasures.\u201d Screenshot via Netflix & Science Ltd. \u201cTreasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable\u201d (2017).<\/em><\/p>\n

The exhibition that launched a thousand angry tweets lives on\u2014on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the streaming service released a mockumentary, \u201cTreasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,<\/a>\u201d that chronicles the fictional story behind Damien Hirst<\/a>\u2019s two-venue exhibition<\/a> in Venice last year.<\/p>\n

The slickly produced film\u2014full of sweeping underwater shots and a swelling soundtrack\u2014was financed by the artist himself, a spokesperson from Hirst\u2019s company, Science Ltd, tells artnet News. \u201cThe film is something Damien wanted people to be able to come across in years to come, which explores the backstory of the project,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

According to the 90-minute mockumentary, the vast Venice spectacle was not<\/em> the 52-year-old artist\u2019s highly anticipated comeback exhibition, which took 10 years and cost a reported $65 million to produce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead, the film suggests the show was the debut presentation of long-lost treasure discovered by a team of archaeologists and divers off the coast of east Africa. The trove\u2014so the story goes\u2014had been assembled during the 1st\u00a0or 2nd\u00a0centuries by a former slave turned voracious collector, Cif Amotan II (an anagram, it turns out, for \u201cI am fiction\u201d).<\/p>\n

The film follows a team of researchers as they identify Amotan\u2019s shipwreck beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean. But in order to retrieve the sunken booty, they need a benefactor. Enter: Damien Hirst.<\/p>\n

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from artnet Damien Hirst Created a Fake Documentary About His Fake Venice Show\u2014and Now You Can See It on Netflix The film, financed by the artist himself, seeks to re-enact the fictional backstory behind the divisive show. Julia Halperin One of Damien Hirst\u2019s \u201cfound treasures.\u201d Screenshot via Netflix & Science Ltd. \u201cTreasures From the Wreck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}