Most Popular Books by Damien Hirst

This book was published on the occasion of ''Damien Hirst: Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures'' at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. Marking the first phase of Hirst?s yearlong takeover of the Britannia Street gallery, the exhibition featured rarely seen works by the artist created between 1993 and 2021.00Mimicking color photographs, the Fact Paintings are rendered in oil on canvas, sometimes with meticulous fidelity, at others reveling in the physicality of mark making. Their verisimilitude recalls the historical role of painting as a tool to represent the visible world and lead the viewer to believe that a two-dimensional image is, in fact, the three-dimensional object it portrays. In the Fact Sculptures, presented alongside the related paintings, Hirst moves beyond the readymade, instead constructing detailed replicas of real objects.00This publication features extensive reproductions of the forty-six exhibited works, as well as photographs of the installation. It also includes a new essay by Alice Godwin, which considers both the art historical context of the works as well as the new meaning they take on within contemporary life.00Exhibition: Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, UK (12.04.-24.05.2021).

This book is a creative guide to the making of arguably the most extraordinary art object to be made in the 21st century. Published to accompany the 2007 exhibition "Damien Hirst: Beyond Belief" at White Cube, it gives a fascinating pictorial insight into how Hirst''s diamond skull piece "For the Love of God" was conceived and produced. Illustrated with candid behind-the-scenes photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd, the book includes a number of preparatory drawings by Damien Hirst and a fold-out image of the diamond skull. Accompanying this is an essay by the art historian Rudi Fuchs, who writes, "The skull is out of this world, celestial almost. I tend to see it as a glorious intense victory over death." A number of leading experts in the fields of archeology and dentistry have also contributed detailed studies on the diamond skull, including analyses of its age and ancestry.

This exquisite hardback volume, boasting a ribbed leather spine, presents the second collection of a series of drawings on paper by Damien Hirst (born 1965), rendered in a range of mediums including silverpoint, charcoal and ink. The drawings form part of Hirst''s most ambitious project to date, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, presented at the Pinault Collection''s two Venetian museums--the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana--from April to December 2017. The exhibition marked the first time in the Collection''s history that both museums had been dedicated to the work of a single artist.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London 14.10.2009 - 24.1.2010.

Requiem is a major retrospective in two volumes covering over one hundred works dating from 1990 to 2008.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst: The Veil Paintings at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Taking the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure, in this series Hirst embraces color and gestural painting on a large scale. Referencing both Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism, including Georges Seurat and Pierre Bonnard, The Veil Paintings layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color.0The publication documents thirty-seven paintings in the exhibition with plate and detail images as well as installation photography. It features a new essay by Lisa Small with illustrations and a double-sided dust jacket, available in two options.00Exhibition: Gagosian, Beverly Hills, USA (01.03-140-.04.2018).

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Damien Hirst: Poisons + Remedies, a catalogue illustrating the two new painting series which debuted at Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street in London 2010. The Poisons paintings feature skulls, a recurrent icon in Hirst''s oeuvre, silkscreened in black UV ink with charcoal onto large canvases and titled after toxic chemical preparations, suggesting possible causes of death accompanying each ghostly visage. The Remedies paintings contain colored resin and plaster pills scattered across a white background in a chaotic arrangement. Poisons + Remedies reminds us of the tenuous boundaries between life and death, acknowledging the life-altering role of science while alluding to the redemptive powers of art. This fully illustrated catalogue also features two essays by novelist Gary Shteyngart.

The central sculpture is a severed bull''s head with golden horns and crowned with a solid gold disc, suspended in formaldehyde and encased in a golden vitrine. Also included is Judgement Day, a 30 foot long gold cabinet filled with close to 30,000 manufactured diamonds. The artist''s series of photorealist paintings including The Golden Jubilee (2008), The Agra (2006) and The Premiere Rose (2006) here are illustrated alongside 20 short historical texts, alongside the diamonds.

Published on the occasion of the artist''s show at Musée Océanographique de Monaco in April 2010, ''Cornucopia'' celebrates Hirst''s paintings and sculptures from 1994 - 2009

This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990’s, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings. Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith’s College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst’s work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain’s most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.