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febbraio 17, 2022 - Gagosian Gallery
Inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gstaad features never-before-exhibited works by Damien Hirst
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Myths, Legends and Monsters Is Open February 14 through March 26, 2022
Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever. —Damien Hirst
Marking the opening of the new gallery in Gstaad, Gagosian is pleased to present Myths, Legends and Monsters, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by #damienhirst. Produced over the past fifteen years, these works have not previously been exhibited.
Myths, Legends and Monsters (2007–) is a series of monochromatic oil paintings that depict legendary artistic, political, and pop-cultural personalities
including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie, Sharon Tate, and Andy Warhol. Reconsidering what makes such figures lastingly iconic, Hirst calls into question contemporary notions of celebrity and identity, influence and notoriety. The series’ subjects are all complex individuals—far from being straightforward heroes or villains, they possess aspects of all three elements of the title. “I tried to represent humanity—or, often, a lack of it—in all its facets,” Hirst explains.
By rendering the subjects of Myths, Legends and Monsters in black and white, Hirst introduces a powerful aura of nostalgia to the project, a persistent suggestion of fading memories and times past. He also establishes a striking contrast with the intense and varied color on display in other well-known bodies of his work such as the extensive Spot Paintings series and, more recently, the Veil paintings. “I
felt a need to let the color drain away,” he notes, “and explore something more binary.” The exhibition’s pencil drawings, made after the paintings but of equal significance to the artist, underscore this exclusive focus.
Myths, Legends and Monsters is the most recent incarnation of Hirst’s Fact Paintings, which mimic photographs in oil on canvas, sometimes with scrupulous accuracy,
at others reveling in the physical qualities of the medium. Fascinated by the implications of investing an extended period of artistic labor in the making of an image that was originally captured in a mere instant, Hirst presents these works as challenges to the obduracy of “fact” as a governing principle of perception. Myths, Legends and Monsters explores, as do the Fact Paintings as a whole, a dialogue between the brush and the camera as agents of “truth.”
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