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Damien Hirst, H6-7 Air, 2020
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Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum composite panel
39.5 x 39.5 in | 100 x 100 cm
Ed of 60
Air, the least tangible of the four elements believed necessary to achieve equilibrium, has an often understated significance. It is an invisible yet powerful force which has been tied for centuries to notions of hidden knowledge, fate, spirituality and other imperceptible forces that play a hand in our world.
In Damien Hirst’s visualisation of ‘Air’ from ‘The Elements’ (H6, 2020) he presents a serene kaleidoscope of pale images butterfly wings, a stoic and serene composition that evokes calm and deep contemplation. Its billowing pattern, evocative of a flower with many petals, is created using wings of various soft blue and lilac hues, with others in creams and whites.
Utilising images of butterflies, one of his best-known motifs, through ‘Air’ Hirst reaches back in time to the beliefs of early medicine in the power of the elements and brought those beliefs into the present day to question our contemporary view of sickness and health, of life and death. For him, butterflies are laden with meaning, extending across time and geography to encompass the ideas such as the very notions of life and death themselves.