{"id":132227,"date":"2025-11-10T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132227\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:02:09","slug":"when-three-art-giants-combine-to-create-one-giant-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132227\/","title":{"rendered":"When three art giants combine to create one giant yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a celeb-obsessed world, someone thought what could be better than three famous artists collaborating in a new exhibition. As it turns out, the answer is almost anything else could be better.<\/p>\n

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Triple Trouble is an exhibition of new collaborative works by uber-famous Damien Hirst alongside street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader \u2013 and hosted in Hirst\u2019s own gallery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s triple, and it\u2019s troubled.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t already know their work, don\u2019t worry \u2014 you do. It feels as if Hirst has been pickling things longer than your grandmother, Fairey\u2019s OBEY posters are basically the wallpaper of modern rebellion, and Invader\u2019s pixelated aliens are everywhere short of your talkie toaster.<\/p>\n

So, what happens when three famous artists decide to remix each other\u2019s art? You get a slop of cultural smoothie that tastes vaguely of fame, money and disappointment.<\/p>\n

Room after room has been filled with superficially the same stuff, creating the effect of mass-produced art with price tags that ooze exclusivity.<\/p>\n

A pickled space invader replaces Hirst\u2019s shark, draining both of meaning. It\u2019s not even an original alien design \u2014 just another one cloned from the 1970s computer game. In other rooms, Invader\u2019s work slides into Fairey\u2019s murals like an awkward party guest who didn\u2019t get the memo.<\/p>\n

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For a brief, shining moment, I thought the Rubik\u2019s Cube murals might save the day until I realised all the other murals were the same. Some might call it a pattern, but it\u2019s really just repetition with a side of fatigue.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the exhibition writ large \u2013 room after room of the same repeated concepts, churned out in an artist factory.<\/p>\n

In one room, \u201cObey\u201d hangs from the walls, an instruction to the viewer to comply with the requirement that you will pretend to be enjoying the art for no reason other than it\u2019s by Three Famous People.<\/p>\n

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The overall impression of walking around whitewashed rooms filled with plastic art is of stepping into a griege McMansion filled with grey furniture, grey walls and owned by people with grey imaginations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all Turkey teeth and doorknocker dining chairs, and about as authentic.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, Triple Trouble<\/a> is at the Newport Street Gallery<\/a> until 29th March 2026 and is free to visit.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.<\/p>\n

Once the exhibition closes, expect the art to be snapped up by excited collectors purely because of who made it, rather than for any innate artistic merit that the original concepts might once have contained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a celeb-obsessed world, someone thought what could be better than three famous artists collaborating in a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-132227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}