Damien HIRST (1965) - Lot 25

Lot n° 25
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Damien HIRST (1965) - Lot 25
Damien HIRST (1965) Dots 5 - Skull. Screen-printed skateboard with hand-drawn design. 92.5 x 33.5 cm. 2011, Hand-signed. Note: Damien Steven Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, England, and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he began working in construction. He studied art at Leeds College of Art between 1983 and 1985. He was not admitted to Saint Martins School of Art, but in 1986 he entered Goldsmiths College of Art, where he studied fine art until 1989, with Michael Craig-Martin among his teachers. Damien Hirst became interested in the "unacceptable idea of death" in his teens. At Goldsmiths he imagined and began some of his most important series, such as the medicine cabinets. He noted that "science is the new religion for many people", and this idea would feature strongly in his work. In 1988, Damien Hirst organized the famous "Freeze" exhibition in a building in London's Docks with other students, a landmark event for the activity of the group later known as Young British Artists, and for his own artistic career. It was on this occasion that he painted his first "Spot paintings" on walls. In 2012, 11 of Gagosian's galleries around the world presented exhibitions of the "spot paintings", materializing a "perverse and megalomaniac" idea of the artist. In 1991, he began his famous "Natural History" series. With the financial backing of Charles Saatchi, he created "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a showcase displaying a tiger shark in methanal. The work is one of the artist's best-known, and an icon of '90s art. In the 2000s, he continued to explore important themes such as love, religion, death, beauty and science. In 2007, he exhibited the spectacular work "For the Love of God", a platinum replica of a human skull, encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, but retaining the original teeth. In 2008, when the financial world collapsed, he organized a sale at Sotheby's that brought in over $200 million. In 2012, Tate Modern dedicated a retrospective to him. In 2017, with the support of the Fondation Pinault, he produced and exhibited "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable" in Venice, a blockbuster of works produced between 2008 and 2016, at a cost of over £50 million. In 1995, Damien Hirst was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize.
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