Damien Hirst
dal 10/3/2005 al 23/4/2005
Segnalato da
10/3/2005
Damien Hirst
Gagosian Gallery, New York
The Elusive Truth. The show will be comprised of approximately thirty paintings, which have been completed over the past three years. For the most part, his paintings have taken on two styles. One is an arrangement of color spots with titles that refer to pharmaceutical chemicals, known as Spot paintings. The second, his Spin paintings, are created by centrifugal force, when Hirst places his canvases on a spinner, and pours the paint as they spin. This exhibition signals a new direction in his work.
The Elusive Truth
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Damien Hirst. Entitled "The Elusive Truth," the show will be comprised of approximately thirty paintings, which have been completed over the past three years.
This exhibition, Hirst’s first in New York since 2000, signals a new direction in his work.
Hirst’s 2004 exhibitions include his first survey exhibition, "The Agony and the Ecstacy," at Museo Archelogico Nazionale, Naples, and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Fairhurst, Hirst and Lucas," at Tate Britain, London. "Damien Hirst: From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings" was also published in 2004. It presents an important selection of drawings and sketches spanning Hirst’s entire career.
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol, England in 1965. While still a student at Goldsmith's College in 1988, he curated the now renowned student exhibition, Freeze, held in east London. In this exhibition, Hirst brought together a group of young artists who would come to define cutting-edge contemporary art in the 1990's. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition at the Woodstock Street Gallery, entitled In and Out of Love, in which he filled the gallery with hundreds of live tropical butterflies, some of which were hatched from the monochrome canvases that hung the walls. In 1992, he was part of the ground breaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. In this show, he exhibited his now famous Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. That same year he was nominated for the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize, and later won that coveted award in 1995.
Hirst's best known works are his paintings, medicine cabinet sculptures, and glass tank installations. For the most part, his paintings have taken on two styles. One is an arrangement of color spots with titles that refer to pharmaceutical chemicals, known as Spot paintings. The second, his Spin paintings, are created by centrifugal force, when Hirst places his canvases on a spinner, and pours the paint as they spin. In the medicine cabinet pieces Hirst redefines sculpture with his arrangements of various drugs, surgical tools, and medical supplies. His tank pieces, which contain dead animals, that are preserved in formaldehyde, are another kind of sculpture and directly address the inevitable mortality of all living beings. All of Hirst's works contain his ironic wit, and question art's role in contemporary culture.
Hirst's first exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York was in 1997, and was entitled No Sense of Absolute Corruption. Hirst's 2000 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Chelsea is his first one-man exhibition since then.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
Image: Two Pills, 2004; Oil on canvas
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