New Damien Hirst 'Veil prints' - 2020
Damien Hirst and HENI limited editions from the H4 series based off Hirst’s Veil Paintings – titled Keukenhof, Kew, Nong Nooch and Ryoanji.
Unveiled in 2018, the Veil Paintings take the ‘Visual Candy’ paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embrace colour 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 colour.
Inspired partly by the Pointillist innovations of Georges Seurat and the post-Impressionist paintings of Pierre Bonnard, Hirst continues his examination of colour and its effect on the eye in the ‘Veil Paintings’. Of the series, Damien Hirst has said “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
Damien Hirst H4-7 RYOANJI (2020)Medium: Diasec-mounted giclée print on aluminium panelLimited edition of 75Signed and numbered on reverse