Twenty Five Years of Spot Paintings

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Thursday, 12 January 2012 - Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Tue-Sat 10-6
GAGOSIAN GALLERY'S 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

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.

Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/damien-hirst--january-12-2012

6-24 BRITANNIA STREET
LONDON WC1X 9JD
020 7841 9960

Image: DAMIEN HIRST
'Morphine Sulphate, 1993
'Household gloss on canvas '57 x 87 inches  (144.8 x 221 cm)

''© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011

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