London-based multi-media artist and Turner Prize winner Damien Hirst is a pioneer YBA who helped to establish the 1990's British Art Scene. Thirty years on he continues to challenge artistic conventions, producing works that are multidimensional with a sense of irony, often engaging with adverse contemporary culture, power dynamics, and value play.
His 2018 presentation at BASTIAN Berlin showcased his iconic butterfly diptychs: radiant and alluring colour-blocked canvases whose obscure reference to a morbid nursery rhyme exhibit both the artist's immaculate aesthetic as well as his enduring use of contradiction. Animals are a recurring subject, with butterflies especially pervasive throughout his body of work, and are used to explore themes of death, immortality, metamorphosis, and resurrection.
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Damien Hirst
Unicorn - The Dream is Dead, 2005
Inscription embossed on edge of table "UNICORN The Dream is dead Damien Hirst A/P"
Silver, glass, coins, water
251 x 142 x 60 cm / 98.8 x 55.9 x 23.6 in. [h x w x d]
Edition of 3 + 1 AP |
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Damien Hirst
Que Muero Porque No Muero, 2005
Signed twice (on the stretcher bar and canvas), titled and dated in ink verso.
Butterflies, knives, pills, paraphernalia and household gloss on canvas
Diameter 213.4 cm / 84 in. |
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