Year2021

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Purchased fromPublisher 2021 

Story / Additional InfoIn 2021, Damien unveiled 'The Virtues' (H9), his second print series. The monumental canvases have been translated here into a vivid series of eight laminated Giclée prints on aluminum composite panels which captures the ephemeral, colorful blooms on sprawling tree branches.

Ultimately about the spontaneous joy of spring, 'Cherry Blossoms' heralded Hirst's self-professed "move away from Minimalism and the idea of the imaginary mechanical painter". A series of 107 canvases of various sizes, 'Cherry Blossoms' is derived from the artist's investigations into the relationships between abstraction and figuration. Returning to the ideas and aesthetics of the 19th century Pointillist painters Georges Seurat and Pierre Bonnard, the paintings are built up of "flashes" of a vast array of colours that work together to create a depth and vivacity to the visually predominant pinks and whites of the blossom trees. Working with the vast scale of the series, Hirst would fill his studio with canvases and work on a number of them simultaneously. In this way, image creation became symbiotic with the immersive viewing experience of them. 

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