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Damien Hirst, H5-3 Camino Real, 2018
$17,500.00
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum panel
35.5 x 35.5 in | 90 x 90 cm
Ed of 100
Damien Hirst’s ‘Camino Real’ from ‘Colour Space’ (H5, 2018) offers viewers an up-close view of his style which overtly diverges from his iconic ‘Spot Paintings’ (begun in 1986), employing imperfect and free forms to energise the composition. This facsimile print is derived from his 2016 ‘Colour Space’ series, which deconstructs Hirst’s previous mechanical grid system and allows warped spots to float haphazardly across the canvas.
In ‘Camino Real’, Hirst’s variously shaded spots are set against a white background, at times touching and overlapping. Unlike those in his ‘Spots Paintings’, these spots are not stationary but dynamically move, their colours occasionally splattering. These splatters seemingly confer tail-like elements to these spots, rendering them like balloons and heightening the inherently celebratory nature of this work. Across their various forms, together these spots construct entrancing swirling and circular patterns.
These spots reverberate with life, covering and apparently surpassing the entirety of the picture plane. As such, ‘Camino Real’ is recollective of atomic structures being observed through a microscope, the sheer number of them sliced into a single slide. Through its medium of Diasc-mounted Giclée print on aluminium panel, the comparison of ‘Camino Real’ to energetic particles being sandwiched between pieces of glass for study is further strengthened, allowing the printed medium to transport the original work into a new level of understanding.