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Damien Hirst, H5-1 Gritti, 2018
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Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum panel
35.5 x 35.5 in | 90 x 90 cm
Ed of 100
Damien Hirst’s visually entrancing facsimile print ‘Gritti’ is speckled with extraordinarily playful spots. This print from Hirst’s ‘Colour Space’ (H5, 2018) is based on an original work from his eponymous painting series from 2016. Borrowing the logic of uniquely coloured spots from his ‘Spot Paintings’ (begun in 1986), in ‘Colour Space’ gone are the iconic grids, replaced by a randomness of movement, colour and even splattering paint to enliven the once strictly arranged spots.
Against a white background, vibrant hues of red, orange, green, blue, purple, yellow and pink spots are congested, touching and overlapping to cover the near entirety of the present picture plane. The occasional splatter adds an additional air of vitality, emphasising the dynamic nature of the work. Together the spots play tricks on the eyes, appearing almost like pixelations as their colours unintentionally assemble into captivating swirling and circular patterns.
The spots in ‘Gritti’, named for the palace hotel in Venice, appear to float in space and total to seemingly infinite numbers as they push past the picture plane, effectively establishing connections to atoms under a microscope. Reverberating with energy, these dynamic particles construct a work that seems suspended in a constant state of transformation.