Pi-Consulting

You can’t take it with you. Official. And to prove it, look no further than the latest masterwork of British artist Damien Hirst, who has sold a life-sized bejeweled sculpted death’s head to an investor group for a death-defying $100 million US. The man who gave the world the pickled shark and the sheep-sawn-in-half in formaldehyde has excelled himself yet again, lovingly crafting a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds.

Selling this bizarre object to a “consortium of collectors” (friends of his, perhaps? Hirst himself reportedly has still “retained a position in the piece”), he has consolidated his claim to the title of World’s Best-Selling Living Artist. Poignantly, the new work is titled “For The Love Of God”, probably foreshadowing the typical reaction from members of the general public when they find out what the great man hath wrought. (more…)