Plagiaires, faussaires & arnaqueurs dans l'art
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[2010] The Art Damien Hirst Stole
Watch the video here . See press coverage and more info here . This article was published online by 3ammagazine.com and in print by The Jackdaw Sept/Oct 2010 issue.
La notion de plagiat dans l'histoire de l'art est depuis toujours à la fois un sujet passionnant et un faux problème. C'est aussi le cas en littérature, comme le démontrait récemment Michel Houellebecq , qui assume largement d'avoir eu recours à des articles de Wikipedia à peine modifiés pour étoffer son dernier roman, , reprenant là une tradition qui remonte à Lautréamont et à Jules Verne , et sans doute bien avant encore.En musique, on connaît le mode du sampling, et au cinéma les citations plus ou moins littérales sont légions. Dans les arts plastiques, la copie est à l'origine même du processus créatif : tout l'art de la Rome antique n'est qu'un « plagiat » de l'art grec, et les peintres de la Renaissance (qui souvent travaillaient à plusieurs sur une même toile) se copiaient les uns les autres via les modelli diffusés par la gravure.
Damien Hirst plagiaire : et alors ?
Damien Hirst faces eight new claims of plagiarism | Art and design
A detail from Damien Hirst's In the Name of the Father which is claimed to be based on John LeKay's earlier This is My Body, This Is My Blood.
Is Damien Hirst a Serial Plagiarist?
Damien Hirst has been accused of a lot of things in his day — from peeing in the sinks of posh Soho clubs in his early years to, of late, making "ugly, ugly, ugly" paintings — and one of the more persistent allegations has been that the bad-boy YBA is a little too quick to steal other artists' ideas. Now this complaint has been vociferously resurrected by Charles Thomson , co-founder of the Stuckist movement, who is accusing Hirst of plagiarizing at least 15 of his most famous works, including his medicine cabinets, spin paintings, diamond-encrusted skull, and pickled shark. While only eight of the claims, which Thompson makes in an article published in The Jackdaw arts newsletter , are new — and while the tone of the Stuckists, a revanchist group opposed to abstract and conceptual art, is generally hysterical and zany — some of the pieces are actually very similar to their alleged sources.
Every few weeks, photographs of old paintings arrive at Martin Kemp’s eighteenth-century house, outside Oxford, England. Many of the art works are so decayed that their once luminous colors have become washed out, their shiny coats of varnish darkened by grime and riddled with spidery cracks. Kemp scrutinizes each image with a magnifying glass, attempting to determine whether the owners have discovered what they claim to have found: a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Kemp, a leading scholar of Leonardo, also authenticates works of art—a rare, mysterious, and often bitterly contested skill.
Peter Paul Biro, fingerprints, and a lost Leonardo : The New Yor
Le faussaire au faux air de génie
Alors que nous sommes toujours sans nouvelles des petits Henri, Georges, Amedeo et Fernand , disparus un matin à Paris, découpés au couteau, le procès d’une douzaine de faussaires s’est ouvert cette semaine à Créteil, et s’achèvera demain, vendredi.