Cannizaro, (H4-4)

As one of the most successful artists in the world, Damien Hirst (b. 1965 in Bristol, UK) is a British Conceptual artist known for his controversial take on beauty and found-art objects. His wide-ranging practice includes installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Part of the Young British Artists movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s, Hirst went on to win the coveted Turner Prize in 1995.  Consistently challenging the boundaries between art, science and religion, his visceral, visually arresting work has made him a leading artist of his generation.

Damien Hirst’s ‘Cannizaro’, is a dreamlike facsimile print from an original painting. Published in 2018, the present work is from Hirst’s ‘Veils’ (H4) series, in which sensuous details derived from his acclaimed ‘Veil Paintings’ (2017) are depicted: from the layers of Pierre Bonnard-like color to the short strokes reminiscent of Pointillism. The result is veil-like works, entities that apparently could be passed through while nonetheless remaining physical boundaries.

Damien Hirst lives and works in London and Gloucestershire. Since 1987, over 90 solo Damien Hirst exhibitions have taken place worldwide, and he has been included in over 300 group shows. In 2012, Tate Modern, London presented a major retrospective survey of Hirst’s work in conjunction with the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. His work features in major collections including the British Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate, the Stedelijk Museum, the Yale Center for British Art, The Broad Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Fondazione Prada, and Museo Jumex, among many others.