Accompanying Self's insightful and engaging text is an in -
depth interview between Hirst and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director
of London's Serpentine Gallery, and also an essay by art historian andcurator Rudi Fuchs that considers and explores the significance
of «For the Love
of God» in relation to Hirst's oeuvre: «After all, Damien Hirst's art is concerned with love and fear, with death, malady, physical decay, medical practice and pharmaceutical
illusion... The inevitable proximity
of death is the most
real thing in human life.