The Colour Space series is a development of
the iconic Spot Paintings which are among the artist's most recognised works.
These works are a development of the artist's
iconic Spot Paintings, regarded as the artist's most recognized works.
Evolving from
the iconic Spot Paintings, which are among Hirst's most recognized works, the Colour Space paintings revisit the free and spontaneous nature of his first two spot paintings from 1986, exactly thirty years later.
Now exhibited for the first time in public, The Colour Space paintings are a development of Damien Hirst's
iconic Spot Paintings regarded as the artist's most recognized works.
Not exact matches
Hirst remade Mickey Mouse on the invitation of Disney as one of his
iconic series of
spot paintings.
The museum's beginnings date back to 1993, when antique dealer Scott Wilson
spotted an oil
painting in the trash — the now
iconic Lucy in the Field with Flowers.
Included alongside works such as the
iconic lamb in formaldehyde, «Away from the Flock» (1994) and an early
spot painting, are a series of early collages, produced by Hirst in the mid-80s.
Some of the unique highlights I
spotted in advance are a pastel of Edward Ruscha's DO ING, previously exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LACMA and the Whitney, which will be at ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN; Frank Stella's Brazilian Merganser, along with stunning works by Dzubas, Diebenkorn and Olitski, are at Leslie Feely; Roy Lichtenstein's Reflections on Expressionist
Painting and some
iconic Warhol silkscreen pieces are at Benrimon Projects; and Mayoral Galeria D'Art is presenting Salvador Dali's Rhinocéros en désintégration, along with a handsome Alexander Calder
painted sheet metal sculpture and Joan Miró's Personnage.
The
Spot Paintings were perhaps the most
iconic images which populated most of Hirst's ground breaking exhibitions of this period from Freeze in 1989 when he was
painting directly onto the walls, to his much celebrated installation at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 which included the
iconic works The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and A Thousand Years, to his exhibition of the Mother and Child Divided at the Venice Biennale in 1993, which announced his presence on the global scene, and his nomination for the Turner prize in 1994, the year the present work was executed.
The exhibition will highlight works including many of his most
iconic pieces such as, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 (the shark) and his
Spot and Spin
paintings.