Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume with 18 gatefold spreads</strong></p><p>With 107 new works, <i>Cherry Blossoms</i> marks a new chapter in Damien Hirst's career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his <i>Spot Paintings</i> 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. Rich in color and striking in number, Hirst's <i>Cherry Blossoms</i> are both an appropriation and a tribute to the pictorial art of the 19th and 20th centuries.</br><b>Damien Hirst</b> (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 nearly 30-year career was staged at Tate Modern. Hirst is represented by Gagosian.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Toggle between figuration and abstraction [...] They're more than paintings of flowers. They are exuberant and life-affirming but also excessive and messy.--Chloë Ashby "Guardian"<br><br>The show's catalogue raisonné is a monumental display of the Fondation's commitment to the show and its belief in Hirst the painter - full-colour versions of all 107 pieces feature alongside a cherry-blossom cultural anthology and four essays by critics from around the world, hitherto unconnected to Hirst, who set it within a cultural, botanic, and poetic context.--Beatrice Hodgkin "Financial Times"<br>
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