
Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Japan opens.
Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Japan, presented by The National Art Center, Tokyo and Fondation Cartier… Read More
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Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
Since emerging onto the international art scene in the late 1980s, Damien Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death. From serialized paintings of multicoloured spots to animal specimens preserved in tanks of formaldehyde, his work challenges contemporary belief systems, tracing the uncertainties that lie at the heart of human experience.
In 1988, while studying at Goldsmiths College in London, Hirst curated Freeze, a rolling exhibition in three parts, featuring his work and that of fellow students. This show is considered the debut of the artists who would come to be known as the Young British Artists, or YBAs, whose approach was characterized by a combination of entrepreneurial and oppositional attitudes, the use of found materials, and an interest in shock and spectacle. In the final iteration of Freeze, Hirst included two of his Spot paintings, which he painted directly onto the wall. The Spot paintings (1986–), of which there are now more than one thousand, present multicoloured spots on white or near-white grounds and are painted by hand in glossy house paint. With these works, Hirst sought to paint like a machine yet allow for the subtle imperfections of the artist’s hand. In 2012 Gagosian showed more than three hundred Spot paintings at once across all eleven of the gallery’s locations.
Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Japan, presented by The National Art Center, Tokyo and Fondation Cartier… Read More
Natural History is the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking works employing formaldehyde.
Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever. —Damien Hirst Marking the opening of the new gallery… Read More
The Empresses is a series of five prints depicting carefully composed images of butterflies by Damien Hirst and published by HENI Editions.
Obviously, Damien must be hard up for cash* what else could explain him designing more album covers? Fresh from designing… Read More
Gagosian have announced that they will be opening of a new gallery in Gstaad, Switzerland, this February. Located along the… Read More
The National Art Center, Tokyo and Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain to present Damien Hirst, Cherry Blossoms, the artist’s first major solo… Read More
Damien Hirst has airdropped 10,000 NFTs to buyers of his “The Currency” collection. The giveaway is from the new NFT collection… Read More
There are two wrong – but curiously common – ways to approach new technological developments in the arts: automatically reject… Read More
White Cube Hong Kong is to present ‘His Own Worst Enemy’, an exhibition by Damien Hirst. On view in Asia… Read More
To celebrate Frieze London 2021, Annabel’s has joined forces with iconic British Artist Damien Hirst to showcase an exclusive presentation… Read More
On the eve of Frieze 2021, the new Claridge’s ArtSpace will be launched on Tuesday 12th October with an exhibition presented by HENI, entitled ‘Sunshine’, showing works by Damien Hirst.
The Currency by Damien Hirst is the artist’s first NFT drop. The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs, also… Read More
Damien Hirst has created the cover for Drake’s hotly-anticipated new album, Certified Lover Boy. The cover features 12 “Pregnant Woman” emojis in… Read More
A statement posted to the Discord server by HENI Analytics about Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency‘ has broken down its sales… Read More
English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colourful dots. In the same way as paper money, each sheet includes a holographic image of Hirst, a signature, a microdot and – in place of a serial number – a small individual message.
Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification… Read More
A triple treat of exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs which correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks by Damien Hirst, with the NFTs containing high-resolution images of the front and back of each of the 10,000 artworks.
I can’t understand why most people believe in medicine and don’t believe in art, without questioning either. —Damien Hirst Now open Cathedrals… Read More
“The Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme—there’s something almosttacky about them. […] They’re decorative but… Read More
Relics and Fly Paintings by Damien Hirst is the second phase of the artist’s yearlong takeover of the Britannia Street gallery, following the inaugural exhibition of Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures.
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