The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011
January 12 - February 18, 2012
Damien Hirst
Spot Painting , 1986
Household gloss on canvas
96 x 144 inches (243.8 x 365.8 cm)
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011
GAGOSIAN GALLERY HOLDS WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SPOT PAINTINGS BY DAMIEN HIRST
I was always a colorist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color… I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
—Damien Hirst
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” by Damien Hirst.
The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality
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