Damien Hirst: Spring 2020 Collection of Works

Damien Hirst's brightly colored Spots Series, 'I Love You' Butterflies, and Skulls exhibit fresh energy and a vibrant aesthetic that is perfect for springtime. 

Damien Hirst's spots celebrate technical precision and the simple joys of color. Uniform and in a grid-like pattern, Hirst executes the spots with machine-like precesion. Every spot in a work is a differet color, making no two pieces the same. Hirst's 'I Love You' Butterflies series conveys the message through clear iconigraphy, yet the prints remain ambigious. The different colourways are accompanied by gold-leaf. In 2007 Hirst famously cast a real human skull in platinum and covered it with 8,061 flawless diamonds. The skull is widely acknowledged to be the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made. 

Damien Hirst is a British conceptual artist known for his controversial take on beauty and found-art objects. Hirst was part of the Young British Artists movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s. "I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds," he reflected, "any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great." Hirsts works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C, and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.