The original £50m Hirst discoball

Here’s a fun project… The most expensive work of art ever created can now be a DIY weekend hobby.  Damien Hirst’s ‘For the love of God‘ (2007), a platinum skull encased in 8,500 diamonds, costing between £8m and £10m to make (which later sold for £50m), can now be replicated in a plastic skull and crystal beads for a mere £49.99.

Talk about High Art trickling down to the masses. A huge leap considering the 50-carat diamond in the middle of the original Hirst piece alone is estimated to be in the region of £3 to £5 million… versus the paltry cost of the large-sized glass crystal on the IHirst.

The IHirst

Contents: plastic human-sized skull, crystal beads (8,601 pieces), glue, paintbrush, tweezers, silver paint and instructions... make you an IHirst

iartistlondon also includes kitsch DIYs of other iconic contemporary art works including those of Marc Quinn, Tracy Emin. Rachel Whiteread, and even Banksy… Whoa!!

Thanks, Ana for highlighting the Ihirst on FB.