Eternal Form - A Century of Modern and Contemporary Design
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Damien Hirst
Unique ‘Beautiful Heart Beats Spin Chair’
- Estimate
- HK$80,000 - 120,000€8,700 - 13,100$10,300 - 15,400
HK$187,500
Lot Details
beech, household gloss
78 x 43 x 45 cm. (30 3/4 x 16 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Commissioned from Jasper Morrison and published by Other Criteria, London, England. Underside signed and dated 2013. Executed 2013.
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Catalogue Essay
The present chair by Damien Hirst fits within the contemporary artist’s larger body of “Spin” pieces in which Hirst spins the canvas (in this case, a chair designed by Jasper Morrison) and drops paint onto it, resulting in exciting vortexes of colour. The chair is unique and the bright colours and splatters of paint reference formal elements of the artists’ larger body of work, while the use of an existing, industrially produced chair references the artist’s tendency to work with found objects.
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Damien Hirst
British | 1965There is no other contemporary artist as maverick to the art market as Damien Hirst. Foremost among the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group of provocative artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in the late 1980s, Hirst ascended to stardom by making objects that shocked and appalled, and that possessed conceptual depth in both profound and prankish ways.
Regarded as Britain's most notorious living artist, Hirst has studded human skulls in diamonds and submerged sharks, sheep and other dead animals in custom vitrines of formaldehyde. In tandem with Cheyenne Westphal, former Chairman of Phillips, Hirst controversially staged an entire exhibition directly for auction with 2008's "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever," which collectively totalled £111 million ($198 million).
Hirst remains genre-defying and creates everything from sculpture, prints, works on paper and paintings to installation and objects. Another of his most celebrated series, the 'Pill Cabinets' present rows of intricate pills, cast individually in metal, plaster and resin, in sterilized glass and steel containers; Phillips New York showed the largest of these pieces ever exhibited in the United States, The Void, 2000, in May 2017.
Browse ArtistRegarded as Britain's most notorious living artist, Hirst has studded human skulls in diamonds and submerged sharks, sheep and other dead animals in custom vitrines of formaldehyde. In tandem with Cheyenne Westphal, former Chairman of Phillips, Hirst controversially staged an entire exhibition directly for auction with 2008's "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever," which collectively totalled £111 million ($198 million).
Hirst remains genre-defying and creates everything from sculpture, prints, works on paper and paintings to installation and objects. Another of his most celebrated series, the 'Pill Cabinets' present rows of intricate pills, cast individually in metal, plaster and resin, in sterilized glass and steel containers; Phillips New York showed the largest of these pieces ever exhibited in the United States, The Void, 2000, in May 2017.