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Claus Wilke
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I discovered some context on @jack Jack Butcher's Open Edition piece on Zora. Buckle up. It's a masterpiece. 🧵 1/n
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Claus Wilke
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First, this is the piece. The title is: The Physical Impossibility of Provenance
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Now a different piece, by a different artist. "The Unknown (Explored, Explained, Exploded), 1999" by Damien Hirst. You may notice some similarities in appearance. 3/n
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Claus Wilke
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The shark in formaldehyde is one of Damien Hirst's most famous works. The first one Hirst made was titled "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (note the title) and was made in 1991. 4/n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living
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Claus Wilke
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The 1991 shark has since decayed and has been replaced with a new specimen in 2006. Apparently these sharks don't last that long. So it's notable that an apparent 1999 shark (the first image I posted) was sold in 2018 or later (I don't know when, but it wasn't earlier). 5/n
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Claus Wilke
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Well, not so fast. We just learned that the 1999 shark was actually made in 2017. That's what all the fuss over Hirst is about. You can read it in this Guardian article from yesterday. 6/n https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/22/damien-hirst-shark-that-sold-for-about-8m-is-fourth-2017-work-dated-to-1990s
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Claus Wilke
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We cannot prove provenance with physical art. There is no way of truly knowing when a piece was made and who made it. Hence the title in @jack's piece. Hat tip to him for turning this into his own art so quickly! 7/n https://zora.co/collect/base:0x82e30a63bccde3724877878a30c4977b52348198/1
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Claus Wilke
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Also thanks to @eddie whose cast sent me down this rabbit hole. 8/8 https://warpcast.com/eddie/0xbf3c8f37
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