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Damien Hirst   Archaeology now

Galleria Borghese

a cura di   Anna Coliva , Mario Codognato

Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2021, 260 pagine, 27 x 33 cm., ISBN  9788829710454

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Roma, Galleria Borghese, 10 maggio - 10 ottobre 2021

Anna Coliva e Mario Codognato, curatori della mostra e autori, tra gli altri, dei saggi in catalogo, esponendo Damien Hirst nella Galleria Borghese, hanno compiuto un'operazione culturale straordinaria. L'artista inglese, assoluta e controversa celebrità del mondo artistico contemporaneo, non ha realizzato un progetto site-specific per il museo, eppure le sculture prodotte nel corso degli anni e la nuova serie dei dipinti Colour Space sembrano assolutamente e indubitabilmente concepiti per legarsi alle opere, ai colori, alla materia antica e moderna che la Galleria Borghese conserva, e di cui è integralmente tessuta.

Oltre 80 opere dalla serie Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, realizzate con materiali diversi - naturali, tecnologici e preziosi - come bronzo, marmo di Carrara e malachite, sono esposte nelle sale del museo, affiancando i capolavori statuari e pittorici della galleria romana in un progetto che mostra l’incredibile abilità dell’artista di unire concetti e narrazioni. La mostra presenta anche un gruppo di dipinti dalla serie del 2016 intitolata Colour Space che vede l’infiltrazione, nelle parole dell'artista, di “elementi umani”. Lo spazio esterno del Giardino Segreto dell’Uccelliera ospita la colossale scultura Hydra and Kali.

18/12/21

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Installation video of: Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings May 4–August 10, 2018 Gagosian West 24th Street, New York Artworks © Damien Hirst Video: Pushpin Films

April 23, 2018

DAMIEN HIRST Colour Space Paintings

Opening reception: Friday, May 11, 6–8pm May 4–June 30, 2018

555 West 24th Street, New York

I originally wanted the Spots to look like they were painted by a human trying to paint like a machine. Colour Space is going back to the human element, so instead you have the fallibility of the human hand in the drips and inconsistencies. There are still no two exact colors that repeat in each painting, which is really important to me. I think of them as cells under a microscope. —Damien Hirst

Gagosian is pleased to present Damien Hirst’s Colour Space Paintings, the first exhibition of the series in the United States, following their presentation earlier this year at Houghton Hall in England.

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. As Hirst recalls, “My first ever Spot Painting was loose and painted with drippy paint and not minimal at all. In that painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought of as the coldness of Minimalism and the more emotional Abstract Expressionist painting style I’d grown up with. At the time I painted it, it felt uncool and I abandoned it immediately for the rigidity of the grid, removing the mess, but after doing the Spot catalogue raisonné I’ve felt really drawn to that first painting and knew I’d revisit it eventually.”

MARCH 27, 2018