Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms (French Edition) by Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms (French Edition) by Damien Hirst

Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume with 18 gatefold spreads

With 107 works, Cherry Blossoms marks a new chapter in Damien Hirst's career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his Spot Paintings in 1986. Hirst describes his cherry blossoms as "garish and messy and fragile"; the series signals a shift in Hirst's career away from minimalism and "the imagined mechanical painter" toward a painting that delights in the potential haphazardness of the medium, as well as the artist's own fallibility as a creator. Using a conceptual approach, Hirst explores questions of beauty, color and excess in these paintings. Rich in color and striking in number, Hirst's Cherry Blossoms are both an appropriation and a tribute to the pictorial art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2021, Cherry Blossoms was Damien Hirst's first museum exhibition in France.
Damien Hirst (born 1965) rose to prominence in the 1990s as one of the Young British Artists, garnering attention for his controversial site-specific pieces. A 1989 graduate of Goldsmiths College, Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Now one of the contemporary art world's most famous figures, Hirst continues to surprise audiences with a staggering diversity of work, ranging from sculpture and painting to installation and performance art. In 2012, a retrospective of his 30-year career was staged at Tate Modern. Hirst is represented by Gagosian.

Emanuele Coccia est maitre de conferences a l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Il est notamment l'auteur de La Vie sensible (2010), du Bien dans les choses (2013) et de La Vie des plantes (2016), tous trois publies chez Payot-Rivages. Donatien Grau est charge de mission pour les programmes contemporains aupres de la presidente des musees d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie. Il a concu l'exposition de reouverture de la Getty Villa (Los Angeles), Plato in L.A.

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ISBN 13	9782869251588
ISBN 10	2869251580
Title	Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms (French Edition)
Author	Damien Hirst
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Year published	2023-06-01
Number of pages	414
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