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Critical eye

A very recent work by artist Damien Hirst has been all too rapidly
binned by self-made critic and cleaner Emmanuel Asare. The Eyestorm
Gallery, Maddox Street, London W1 (off Regent Street) had set ready
their window with Hirst’s installation (untitled) valued at
some 5,000 only, and composed of overloaded ashtrays, soft drinks
cans, paper coffee cups, sweetwrappers, beer bottles and other ephemera,
piled on high. Asare, of the independent-minded body of critics
(‘I know what I don’t like’) took less than three
minutes of contract time to deconstruct the assemblage for the bin.
Fortunately, gallery staff had taken the precaution of photographing
Hirst’s new installation, and a hasty recourse to the bin and
faithful reconstruction soon saw the work re-installed. It is rumoured
that Asare is currently being solicited by the BBC Newsnight ‘Late
Review’, which has a spare slot for an art critic. Watch both
spaces, and check the art bins.

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