Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms |
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| Author:
| Hirst, Damien |
| Text by:
| Coccia, Emanuele
Costamagna, Philippe
Hayashi, Michio
Williams, Gilda |
| Contribution by:
| Manguel, Alberto |
| ISBN: | 978-2-86925-159-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2021 |
| Publisher: | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume with 18 gatefold spreads
With 107 new works, Cherry Blossomsmarks a new chapter in Damien Hirst's career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his Spot Paintingsin 1986. Hirst describes his cherry blossoms as "garish and messy and fragile"; the series signals a shift in Hirst's career away from minimalism...
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Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume with 18 gatefold spreads
With 107 new works, Cherry Blossomsmarks a new chapter in Damien Hirst's career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his Spot Paintingsin 1986. Hirst describes his cherry blossoms as "garish and messy and fragile"; the series signals a shift in Hirst's career away from minimalism and "the imagined mechanical painter" toward a painting that delights in the potential haphazardness of the medium, as well as the artist's own fallibility as a creator. Rich in color and striking in number, Hirst's Cherry Blossomsare both an appropriation and a tribute to the pictorial art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Damien Hirst(born 1965) rose to prominence in the 1990s as one of the Young British Artists, garnering attention for his controversial site-specific pieces. A 1989 graduate of Goldsmiths College, Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Now one of the contemporary art world's most famous figures, Hirst continues to surprise audiences with a staggering diversity of work, ranging from sculpture and painting to installation and performance art. In 2012, a retrospective of his nearly 30-year career was staged at Tate Modern. Hirst is represented by Gagosian.