I just got an e-mail from s[edition] about Damien Hirst' forthcoming exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, and on his current exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, on for another three weeks. I was invited (by my aunt who has the most incredibly large amount of connections ever, that would take a normal person, like, 100 years to meet) to the private opening a few weeks back, but i wasn't able to go for a reason I can't remember. Here's the info if anyone is interested.
Damien Hirt's lastest exhibition, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, is currently being held at all 11 Gagosian Galleries across the world - in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong.
Uniquely conceived as a single exhibition, it includes more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986 to the most recent comprises 25,781 spots that are each 1mm in diameter. Hirst teasingly offered a personally signed spot print to anyone prepared to fly to every location.
Gagosian Gallery
Until 18th February
Hirst at the Tate Modern, London
4 April - 9 September 2012
In April, Tate Modern will present the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst's work ever held in the UK.
Sponsored by the Qatar Museums Authority, the exhibition brings together over 70 of the artist's most seminal works including iconic sculptures from the early 1990's, such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde and Mother and Child Divided, a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf.
Also on show will be important vitrines such as A Thousand Years (1990), in which the cycle of life is represented by a cow's head, flies and insect-o-cutor. Alongside these sculptures will be cabinets displaying rows of pills, instruments and medical packaging, as well as paintings made throughout Hirst's career from his spot, spin, butterfly and fly series. In addition, two major installations will be on view: In and Out of Love (1991), not shown in its entirety since its creation, and Pharmacy (1992).
I will definitely be making my way to the Tate Modern over summer. Unlike most people (probabaly the people who don't really get him) I really do like Damien Hirst's work. It may not be what a lot of people think is 'ART,' but then again what is? If it's not art, it's still really clever, so where's the problem?
Anyone else thinking of going? x
Damien Hirt's lastest exhibition, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, is currently being held at all 11 Gagosian Galleries across the world - in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong.
Uniquely conceived as a single exhibition, it includes more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986 to the most recent comprises 25,781 spots that are each 1mm in diameter. Hirst teasingly offered a personally signed spot print to anyone prepared to fly to every location.
Gagosian Gallery
Until 18th February
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| Damien Hirst has spots |
Hirst at the Tate Modern, London
4 April - 9 September 2012
In April, Tate Modern will present the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst's work ever held in the UK.
Sponsored by the Qatar Museums Authority, the exhibition brings together over 70 of the artist's most seminal works including iconic sculptures from the early 1990's, such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde and Mother and Child Divided, a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf.
Also on show will be important vitrines such as A Thousand Years (1990), in which the cycle of life is represented by a cow's head, flies and insect-o-cutor. Alongside these sculptures will be cabinets displaying rows of pills, instruments and medical packaging, as well as paintings made throughout Hirst's career from his spot, spin, butterfly and fly series. In addition, two major installations will be on view: In and Out of Love (1991), not shown in its entirety since its creation, and Pharmacy (1992).
I will definitely be making my way to the Tate Modern over summer. Unlike most people (probabaly the people who don't really get him) I really do like Damien Hirst's work. It may not be what a lot of people think is 'ART,' but then again what is? If it's not art, it's still really clever, so where's the problem?
Anyone else thinking of going? x
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