Damien Hirst : forgotten promises

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Damien Hirst : forgotten promises

Gagosian Gallery ,c2011

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Forgotten promises : Damien Hirst = 被遺忘的承諾 : Damien Hirst

Forgotten promises

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Exhibition catalogue

Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Jan. 18-Mar. 19, 2011

Text in English and Chinese

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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."

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  • NCID
    BB09769144
  • ISBN
    • 9781935263333
  • Country Code
    cc
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engchi
  • Place of Publication
    Hong Kong
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 v. (unpaged)
  • Size
    29 cm
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