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Damien Hirst
《為最棒的安妮.蘇菲而作的美麗血腥革命超音速法國旋轉繪畫》
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《為最棒的安妮.蘇菲而作的美麗血腥革命超音速法國旋轉繪畫》可追溯至在1993年,赫斯特與藝術家安格斯‧費赫斯特聯手在倫敦薛迪奇區舉辦了一場由策展人約書亞‧康斯頓策展、由眾藝術家領銜主導的街頭藝術博覽會「比死更糟的宴會」。兩位藝術家在街接頭打造旋轉畫站,訪客只需付1英鎊的費用便能創作自己的旋轉畫,並轉交給兩位藝術家簽名。格列格‧繆爾在回顧赫斯特早期的表演藝術裝置時說道:「赫斯特創作旋轉畫得心應手,甚至在未來發展出一系列的旋轉畫,畫名一律用『美麗的』做起頭,並以『繪畫』結尾。」(格列格‧繆爾和克萊爾‧瓦勒斯:《 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 》,泰特現代藝術館,倫敦,2004年,91頁) 這一系列令收藏家極為嚮往的關鍵作品,更是赫斯特大展中的常客,例如赫斯特於2012年在倫敦泰特現代藝術館所舉辦的回顧展。
相較於旋轉畫系列,赫斯特同樣備受推崇的圓點系列強調的是一絲不苟的繪畫執行,但是兩個系列探討的都是機械介入的主題。赫斯特創作旋轉畫的方法是將顏料倒在高速旋轉的圓形畫布上,他用旋轉機器作畫契機可以追溯至杜象;不過,杜象用所發展出的是一種視覺實驗,赫斯特則是以當代的觀點,專注發展動作所引發的可能、驚奇和欣喜。畫面上的豐富的動感彰顯著赫斯特的藝術實踐中,各種相互抗衡的流動能量。「這關乎死亡和腐敗,也關乎理念和生命:世界對於事物所做出的行為存在一個空間內,而顏色則存在另一個空間中。這實是在太美好了。」(達明安‧赫斯特與高 登‧伯恩:〈在工作的路上〉,Faber and Faber,2001年,119頁) 赫斯特是當今享最譽國際的藝術家之一,呈現於此的《為最棒的安妮.蘇菲而作的美麗血腥革命超音速法國旋轉繪畫》,更是一件極富動感的旋轉畫大作。
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.