Damien
Hirst
b. 1965
“Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different”
Bio
Since the late 1980s, Damien Hirst has used a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Explaining: “Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else,” Hirst’s work investigates and challenges contemporary belief systems, and dissects the tensions and uncertainties at the heart of human experience. Rising to prominence in the 1990s as a leading figure among the Young British Artists, he gained international fame with The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living—a preserved shark in formaldehyde—and other iconic pieces using vitrines to confront mortality. Winner of the 1995 Turner Prize, Hirst has continued to challenge art-world norms through large-scale projects like For the Love of God, a diamond-encrusted skull, and his direct-to-auction sales, redefining the role of the artist in the marketplace.
Damien Hirst
Suiko
39.38" x 39.38"
Laminated giclée print on aluminum composite, screen printed with glitter