«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Iwona Blazwick is talking about the first time she saw a piece of work byDamien Hirst. Blazwick was a young curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and Hirst, a student at the time, had submitted one of his now-famous medicine cabinets to an open competition. “It was the fact that it was so squeaky clean, so brand new, so exquisitely realised,” she says. “The drugs inside it were also very particular. It was just extraordinary.” She pauses, then says, “Do you know, I could have bought it for a thousand quid – but I didn’t have a thousand quid! Even then, Damien was very specific about his prices.” With this she throws her head back and laughs.

-The Telegraph
 Jan 18 2015