Sentences with phrase «hirst cabinet work»

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«End of an Era», Gagosian Gallery's eighth solo Damien Hirst show, featured a new selection of works contributing to the «Natural History», diamond cabinet, and «Fact» painting series.

In their arrangement of objects the cabinets link Hirst's earlier collages (1983 - 1987) to his later work.

Hirst began work on the «Medicine Cabinets» whilst in his second year at Goldsmiths with «Sinner» (1988).

The artist was interviewed on the occasion of works from Hirst's latest series going on display at Hong Kong's major solo exhibition, «Entomology Cabinets and Paintings, Scalpel Blade Paintings and Colour Charts» (21st February - 4th May 2013).

After the private preview, everyone retired to the second floor, where there's Pharmacy 2, the restaurant at the end of a Damien Hirst - themed Disney World ride: medicine cabinets everywhere, pill - shaped barstools, glass - paneled pill works, medical gear in cases, a true»90s - style Hirst explosion of id.

British artist Damien Hirst has shocked and surprised the art world with his unusual works, including glass displays of dead animals and medicine cabinet sculptures.

Forgotten Promises includes some favorites and some newer works from Damien Hirst such as stunning photorealistic oil paintings of butterflies, diamond cabinets, the much talked about diamond encrusted baby skull, and much more.

Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance cabinets de curiosites (intimate and private spaces for the collector but also workshops for scientific research),» Freedom Not Genius» is crowded with stuffed animals from various periods; anatomical studies and bronze casts; an 18th - century plaster cast of a horse's leg; drawings of African mammals; and more recent works by artists such as Banksy, Marcus Harvey, Michael Joo, Sean Landers and Colin Lowe, recreating the imaginary animal world that attracts Hirst the collector.

White Cube sold 10 works totalling more than $ 15 million, among them Damien Hirst's Nothing Is a Problem For Me (1992), one of only four large - scale medicine cabinets made by the artist, for $ 6 million.

The Hirst works, with titles like Happiness (1993 - 1994), are abstract depictions of mood - enhancing drugs, but they are conceptually weak and visually repellent compared to Spot Paintings and Pill Cabinets.

White Cube, for example, is showing a Damien Hirst Medicine Cabinet, of the old - school MDF and paper packaging variety, which reminds us of when his work was unassuming and diffidently indebted to minimalism before the money turned everything to gold.

Damien Hirst's large pill cabinet work got a bid but sold for just above the low estimate making $ 5.85 m and suggesting there's been little recently to move Hirst's market out of its trading range.

Cigarettes and smoking have featured repeatedly in Hirst's works, as a series of stubs individually isolated and displayed on seventeen rows of narrow shelves in a glass - fronted cabinet in Dead Ends, Died Out, Examined 1993 (private collection), or heaped in a stinking mass of butts, ash and other smokers» detritus in an eight foot wide white ashtray called Party Time 1995 (Denver Art Museum).

Last year Hirst briefly set the auction record at Sotheby's - # 9.65 m for Lullaby Spring, a medicine cabinet - for any work by a living artist.

Hirst's work falls into three general categories: vitrine works often featuring animals in formaldehyde, «spot» paintings, and cabinet works, sculptures resembling medicine chests with pills and various other objects.

Like Hirst's vitrines, which evoke both clinical theatres and austere Minimalist form in contrast to their almost spiritual content, Salvation / Damnation's sharp triangular framing conjures the museological setting of insect display cabinets as much as the planar format of works by Donald Judd or Frank Stella.

We contextualize a monumental and significant Damien Hirst «Pill Cabinet» alongside works by Barnett Newman, Donald Judd and Gerhard Richter.

Paul Stolper Gallery presents exhibition of six new inkjet and foil block prints by Damien Hirst «Utopia» will display works depicting rows of either pills, diamonds or cigarettes arranged in metal cabinets, together with «Till Death Do Us Part,» a series of ten foil block skulls on brightly coloured silkscreened paper.