Seeing Spots Thru Hirst’s Eyes
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18 January 2012
“Art Star” Damian Hirst’s Spot Series takes me back to the 70′s board game Twister to the 80′s art school Color Theory 101 class, so it was interesting to hear his vision via this interview / short film by Matt Black from NOWNESS: http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/1/18?ecid=ema1629&CID=
I was also just reading in the NY Times that presently the Gagosian Galleries worldwide are hosting The Complete Spot Painting 1986-2011 series.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/arts/design/damien-hirsts-spot-paintings-at-gagosian-in-eight-cities.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=gagosian%20gallery&st=cse
Definitely check out the fantastic Gagosian website:
http://www.gagosian.com/
This series which consists of 331 canvas has taken the artist 24 years to complete. Although the more I researched this, I found rumblings that he actually grew bored of the works years ago resulting in the remainder to be created and finished by his assistants.
Thoughts?
“A rhinestone-wearing Damien Hirst explains the theory and thought behind his infamous spot paintings in the latest short from filmmaker Matt Black. The legendary British artist, made famous by submerging mammals in formaldehyde and creating jaw-droppingly expensive jewel-encrusted skulls, has become one of the most prolific and lucrative names in contemporary art. The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011, his series of 331 white canvasses imbued with rows of multicolored dots, are currently on display at all 11 of mega-gallerist Larry Gagosian’s sites around the globe. Manufactured largely by Hirst’s army of assistants, the paintings range in size and detail, with the most recent, completed in 2011, containing some 25,781 spots each 1mm in diameter; no single color is ever repeated on a canvas. Black first encountered Hirst’s hyper-symmetrical series in the mid 1990s, and found that his opinion on the works slowly developed from ambivalence to fascination. “When you are in a room full of them, they are overwhelming and disturbing; these dots staring at you creates a real sense of anxiety,” says Black. “His work always has an aggressiveness, and these are no exception.”
NOWNESS.com
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