Best Selling Books by Damien Hirst

Published on the occasion of the artist''s show at Musee Oceanographique de Monaco in April 2010, ''Cornucopia'' celebrates Hirst''s paintings and sculptures from 1994-2009."

This exquisite hardback volume, boasting a ribbed leather spine, presents the second collection of a series of drawings on paper by Damien Hirst (born 1965), rendered in a range of mediums including silverpoint, charcoal and ink. The drawings form part of Hirst''s most ambitious project to date, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, presented at the Pinault Collection''s two Venetian museums--the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana--from April to December 2017. The exhibition marked the first time in the Collection''s history that both museums had been dedicated to the work of a single artist.

The visual candy paintings'' were made between 1992 and 1994. The works showcase the ways in which Damien Hirst used the signifier of candy during the early 1990’s, exploring questions of pure aesthetics. Addressing the viewer on a deliberately emotional and instinctive level, these works, abetted by their exuberant titles, among them Some Fun (1993) and Dippy Dappy Dabby (1993), set out to question the implication that aesthetically pleasing art is inherently insignificant.0.

Published on the occasion of renowned British artist Damien Hirst’s double exhibition at White Cube''s two London galleries, Mason’s Yard and Hoxton Square, in November 2009, Nothing Matters presents Hirst’s new series of large-scale color triptychs opening into lush gatefolds. Plus, Hirst''s his oil paintings on newspaper are reproduced for the first time.. The book also includes an in-depth interview with Gordon Burn.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London 14.10.2009 - 24.1.2010.

With full-color plates of paintings and sculptures, this title was produced for the inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Damien Hirst: Forgotten Promises. It includes "For Heaven''s Sake" (2008), a life-size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pink and white diamonds, as well as beautiful diamond cabinets in gold and silver. A group of paintings from 2008 to 2009, including "Age of Magnificence" and "Fading Magnificence," show real butterflies entombed in layers of shiny metallic paint. The new Love Paintings are painted in oil with painstaking attention to realistic detail. "Why else would you do it, when you could just get a photograph that looks identical?" Hirst has said. "But it''s not the same thing, is it? A photograph is from a moment, a split second. Painting is about stopping to look at the world, considering it, and giving it more and more importance."

Published on the occasion of Damien Hirst''s exhibition at White Cube in Hong Kong in the spring of 2013. Amongst new works illustrated in the publication are some of Hirst''s latest series: the ''Entomology'' paintings and the ''Blade'' paintings.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst: The Veil Paintings at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Taking the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure, in this series Hirst embraces color and gestural painting on a large scale. Referencing both Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism, including Georges Seurat and Pierre Bonnard, The Veil Paintings layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color.0The publication documents thirty-seven paintings in the exhibition with plate and detail images as well as installation photography. It features a new essay by Lisa Small with illustrations and a double-sided dust jacket, available in two options.00Exhibition: Gagosian, Beverly Hills, USA (01.03-140-.04.2018).

This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990’s, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings. Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith’s College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst’s work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain’s most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.