{"id":206,"date":"2021-11-19T09:16:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artists\/damien-hirst\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:40:56","slug":"damien-hirst","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artist\/damien-hirst\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Hirst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-block-artwork-hero alignfull alignfull wp-block-afm-block-artwork-hero has-background has-neutral-50-background-color\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"afm-block-artwork-hero__blocks\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Damien Hirst<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group artwork-meta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-post-meta\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-afm-label\">Date of birth<\/h3> 1965<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-afm-post-meta\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-afm-label\">Country<\/h3> United Kingdom<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Damien Hirst is one of the artists who holds a special position within the Astrup Fearnley Collection. Born in Bristol, he studied at Goldsmith\u2019s College, London. After having forged his place on the British art scene as a remarkable emerging artist in the late 1980s, a key protagonist of the Young British Artist phenomenon, he gained his first international acclaim at the 1993 Venice Biennale.\n\nWhen he won the 1995 Turner Prize, his talent was further recognized, and his stamp firmly embossed on the global contemporary art map. He has now achieved superstar status in the contemporary art world.\n\nHirst engages simultaneously with sculpture, installation, and painting. The former two typically involve the manipulation of readymade materials, such as appropriated objects or animals, presented in altered states. Much of his renown, for example, derives from his works presenting bisected sheep or cows in formaldehyde-filled vitrines, as well as his famous shark. More recently, he has developed his early medicine cabinets, which, like the spliced animals, are characterized by their cold, clinical look. The paintings, although more decorative, are also based on a mechanical approach: the \u201cSpin Paintings\u201d involve the application of paint onto rotating circular canvases, while the \u201cSpot Paintings\u201d are the product of systematically applied monochrome dots in regular grids, and the \u201cButterfly Paintings\u201d present the meticulously arranged insects on painted surfaces, often in highly structured and elaborate patterns.   \n\nBeyond formalistic concerns, Hirst\u2019s art deals with deeply symbolic and metaphysical questions. Long fascinated by death, he seduces spectators with his often-grotesque reflections on mortality: the cadaver of a cow; butterflies objectified onto canvases; medicine in sterile cabinets; flies amassed on pictorial surfaces. In all of these works, the spectator is confronted with the \u201cdecisive moment\u201d of no return. But this preoccupation is typically counter-balanced by a rigorous yearning for total equilibrium. In Hirst\u2019s work, therefore, one identifies fatal situations eerily fixed and suspended in time, as if the artist were trying to reverse nature\u2019s inexorable cycle.  \n\nIf Hirst\u2019s art does not achieve such a redemption of death, it has certainly been significant in redeeming aesthetics. Indeed, as his spectacle of shock has run its course, what was once deemed grotesque or in \u201cbad taste\u201d has since been rearticulated into a new kind of beauty and even the sublime. Cumulatively, his installations, sculptures, and paintings presented in this exhibition offer an important, if fragmented, overview of his formalistic and thematic thinking throughout the past two decades.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"afm_hide_title":false,"afm_artist_date_of_birth":"1965","afm_artist_date_of_death":"","afm_artist_birth_place":"United Kingdom","_afm_post_new_title":""},"class_list":["post-206","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Damien Hirst - Astrup Fearnley Museet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/artists\/damien-hirst\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Damien Hirst\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Damien Hirst is one of the artists who holds a special position within the Astrup Fearnley Collection. 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