(Damien Hirst Circle):
A mesmerizing Damien Hirst Spin painting with explosions of vivid color amidst the timeless, mysterious form of a standout Hirst circle. This Damien Hirst Spin painting originates from Hirst’s ‘Spin Workshop’ - a public event collaboration hosted by the artist to celebrate the opening of his heralded 2009 exhibition: ‘Requiem’ at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine.
Bears Damian Hirst stamped signature and inscription © Damien Hirst’. on the reverse: ‘This painting was made to celebrate the opening of Damien Hirst, Requiem, at the PinchukArtCentre on Damien Hirst [stamped signature]
Spin Painting, 2009
Damien Hirst
Spin Painting, 2009
Acrylic on archival paper.
Dimensions:
Image size: 20.5 DM in.
Frame size: 27.5 H x 28 W x 1.5 D in.
The Turner prize winner and epicenter of the YBA movement. Hirst's emblematic art of our era revolutionizes the art market. Hirst is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today, creating truly iconic artworks. A genuine star of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, Damien Hirst has always made a point of mixing up different media. Whether as a sculptor, an installation artist, a painter, or a printmaker, Hirst has produced many of the most spectacular and widely discussed works in recent years and helped to revolutionize the art market. Damien Hirst's, For the Love of God, the diamond-encrusted replica of the skull of a thirty-five-year-old man from the thirteenth century, broke all records to become the most expensive contemporary artwork in the world. Damien Hirst's artworks are truly emblematic icons of our era, with their recurring motives such as dots, butterflies, cows, sharks, skulls, pills, and pharmacy cabinets. His works, captivating and intense as they are, challenge our stereotyped concepts and beliefs. Damien Hirst's shark, suspended in formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), is widely recognized, as are his real butterflies suspended in paint or thousands of butterfly wings arranged in a mandala-like pattern the famous Damien Hirst butterfly paintings. Since 1986 he has been producing the Spot paintings (sometimes called Dot Paintings), a series of paintings with evocative pharmacological titles, which display lines of colored spots. Damien Hirst's Spot paintings and his Spin paintings became iconic series. Inspired by such diverse themes as life, death, art, science, and medicine, Damien Hirst's art takes a direct and challenging approach to ideas about existence. The energy and inventiveness are also to be found in Damien Hirst's prints, which continue to stir controversy within the viewer with the same intensity.
*I do believe art is more powerful than money, though. I still believe that. And if I ever find out money's more important, I'll knock it on the head..
