The Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Damien Hirst’s exhibition “Spin Painting 2009. La velocità nascosta” . The exibition will be held from October 27 to December 21 (opening Friday 27 H.18:00) .
For the first time in a private gallery in Milan, 30 works from the Serie “Spin Painting” (created for the solo exhibition “Requiem” at the Pinchuk Art Centre of Kiev in 2009) will be exhibited.
An exploration of Damien Hirst’s creative universe, featuring some of the most iconic pieces from his artistic career. Visitors will be capture by a visual energy that evokes feelings and deep emotions and will be carried away by the movement to interpret the personal meaning behind the whirl of colors and shapes. The colours used by Hirst (particularly in this series) are intense, vivid and create an exceptional visual contrast.
His innovative approach to creating art is considered so revolutionary that it has made him an icon of contemporary art in the last forty years, as Andy Warhol was in the recent past with Pop Art.
Damien Hirst has influenced generations of artists by proving that art can be provocative emotive, and, most importantly, a reflection on life. With his audacity and talent, Hirst remains an “alchemist of contemporary art”, his works transforming seemingly everyday ideas and objects into something extraordinary and unforgettable.
Biography
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. His artistic career began in the late Eghties when, with other young artists from Goldsmiths College in London, he began exhibiting his first artworks at some indipendent londoneer spaces (such as at Dock Offices for the exhibitions “Freeze” in 1988, which initiated the formation of the Young British Artists group and Hirst’s rise in the art world. His art is a journey through chaos, beauty and provocation that challenges convention and addresses social issues.
In 1991 was presented to the world “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” also known as “The Shark.” This work consisted of a dead shark suspended in a formaldehyde solution in a huge glass case. This daring experiment provoked a heated debate about art, death and the meaning of life. Hirst had transformed a sea creature into an icon of contemporary art. This interest of him in life, death and human frailty would be a recurring theme in his works: recall series “The Medicine Cabinets,” in which he created fiberglass versions of pharmacy cabinets filled with drugs and medical objects, or works with dead butterflies, diamond-covered skulls imitating that echo the memento mori.
