DAMIEN HIRST (b. 1965)

'DAMIEN HIRST: S U P E R S T I T I O N (Homage to a Government; The Dwelling Place) ', 2006/2007

NEW Offset Lithograph Poster

This poster was produced on the occasion of the artist's major 2007 exhibition of new paintings in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK. Dimensions: 39" x 26". Excellent condition / BRAND NEW (never framed or displayed; last image shown is a framed example).

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Damien Hirst: Superstition was the artist's first exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade. In these works, Hirst expands on the iconic motif of the butterfly as a symbol of the beauty and inherent fragility of life, reaching new heights of complexity, refined detail and radiance.

Throughout his work over the last twenty-five years, Hirst has taken a direct and challenging approach to ideas about existence. His work provokes a critical dialogue by calling into question our awareness and convictions about the boundaries that separate desire and fear, life and death, reason and faith, love and hate. In his art, Hirst uses the tools and iconography of science and religion, creating sculptures and paintings whose beauty and intensity offer the viewer insight into art that transcends our familiar understanding of those domains.

In this exhibition, Hirst creates paintings whose classical shapes and compositions take their inspiration from stained glass church windows. The works all portray an ornate, fractal geometry and perfect, mathematical symmetry that is awe-inspiring.

Each painting in Damien Hirst: Superstition has two titles, the first taken from the poems in Philip Larkin's collection High Windows. Larkin was an English poet whose fatalistic, colloquial writings speak to a seemingly shared extinguished faith. The second title makes direct reference to religious iconography.

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol, England in 1965 and attended Goldsmiths College. In 1988, he curated Freeze, a benchmark exhibition for British art, and was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. A major survey of works from 1989-2004 was held at the Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Napoli, Italy in 2005. Hirst recently curated In the darkest hour there may be light, a selection of works from his Murderme collection at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. He lives and works in Devon, UK and Mexico.

'TRIPLE TROUBLE: FAIREY, HIRST, INVADER' is on view at the Newport Street Gallery, London, UK, 10/10/2025 - 3/29/2026.

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