Best Selling Books by Damien Hirst

This publication showcases the largest ever retrospective of Hirst''s work, and the first book to feature installation images of a curated space. The reader benefits from seeing the works in their original pairings, as conceived by the artist, whilst the interviewer metaphorically walks through the exhibition discussing the works with the artist.

In 2005 Damien Hirst began photographing every dispensing pharmacy in the Greater London area. Shooting both the individual pharmacists behind their counters and the exterior views of the city''s 1,832 chemists, the project has taken over a decade to complete. The images are brought together in their entirety in this extraordinary ten-volume artist''s book, which presents a portrait of the city through the people and places that prescribe the medicines we take on a habitual and daily basis. Hirst''s career-long obsession with the minimalist aesthetics employed by pharmaceutical companies--the cool colors and simple geometric forms--fi rst manifested in his series of Medicine Cabinets, conceived in 1988 while still at Goldsmiths College. For his 1992 installation Pharmacy Hirst recreated an entire chemist within the gallery space, stating: "I''ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilization, with some sort of hierarchy within it. [ Pharmacy ] is also like a contemporary museum. In a hundred years it will look like an old apothecary." Pharmacy London similarly embodies the artist''s realization of an "idea of a moment in time." The publica- tion also, however, reads as a distilled expression of Hirst''s continuing belief in the near-religious role medicine plays in our society.

"Breakfast at The Wolseley gave Damien and I the perfect opportunity to discuss the business of the day," remembers Frank Dunphy, Damien Hirst''s business manager, "the bow-tied super-ego to Mr. Hirst''s id," as The Wall Street Journal has described him. "Always on time, Damien would first hold out his hand for a pen or pencil and would then begin sketching on the back of his placemat." Portraits of Frankis published to coincide with Dunphy''s retirement after almost 15 years with the artist. Seen here for the first time, Hirst''s portraits were sketched during the pair''s regular breakfast meetings at the famous Wolseley restaurant in London between 2004 and 2010. They provide a touching illustration of Frank and Damien''s collaborative relationship as it unfolded over the course of some of the most extraordinary years of the artist''s career.

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Published on the occasion of Damien Hirst’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, in October 2009, this small volume presents 30 colorplates showcasing a selection of blue skull and flower paintings from that show, and three gatefolds. An interview also featured in the larger Wallace Collection catalogue is also included here. This is the signed limited edition of this title.

Catalog of an exhibition held May 1, 2010-Aug. 14, 2010 at Haunch of Venison in London.

Vol. II is a series of over forty works called the skull pictures created between 2006 and 2008.

Catalog of an exhibition held Jan. 18-March 19, 2011 at the Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong.