Damien Hirst (British, b. 1965)
Ryoanji (2020)
Diasec-mounted Giclée prints on aluminum composite panel
Size: 92 x 126 cm (EACH)
Edition Size 75 + 5 AP (SOLD OUT)
Signed and numbered
Hirst’s Veil Paintings (titled Keukenhof, Kew, Nong Nooch and Ryoanji) take the ‘Visual Candy’ paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embrace color and gestural painting on a large scale. Referencing both Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, the ‘Veil Paintings’ layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color.
Inspired partly by the Pointillist innovations of Georges Seurat and the post-Impressionist paintings of Pierre Bonnard, Hirst continues his examination of color and its effect on the eye in the ‘Veil Paintings’. Of the series, Damien Hirst has said “a veil is a barrier, a curtain between two things, something that you can look at and pass through, it’s solid yet invisible and reveals and yet obscures the truth, the thing that we are searching for.”
