Press release—Damien Hirst at Gagosian Beverly Hills
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
DAMIEN HIRST THE VEIL PAINTINGS Opening reception: Thursday, March 1, 6–8PM March 1–April 14, 2018 456 North Camden Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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. —Damien Hirst Gagosian will present Damien Hirst’s latest series, “The Veil Paintings” as the 2018 Oscars show, a much-anticipated annual fixture in the Los Angeles cultural calendar. Hirst’s last exhibition in Los Angeles was “The Complete Spot Paintings” in 2012. Following “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” his highly ambitious sculpture exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice last year, Hirst was drawn towards the immediacy of painting and a return to the studio. This new series takes the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embraces 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. CONTINUE READING...
