书名：Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms/达米安·赫斯特：樱花作品集

出版：Fondation Cartier，2021

作者：Damien Hirst

装帧：精装，330页

语种：英文

尺寸：27x37cm

这卷大开本的图录展示了达米安·赫斯特笔下灿烂盛开的樱花，内有18张折页大图。《樱花》系列包括107幅新作，标志着达米安·赫斯特职业生涯的新篇章。从1986年的现场绘画开始，赫斯特对艺术家与画布之间的物理关系进行了长期探索。赫斯特形容他的樱花“绚丽、凌乱、脆弱”；这一系列标志着赫斯特的职业生涯从极简主义和“想象中的机械画家”转变成以潜在的随意性为乐的绘画，并且接纳了艺术家自身作为创作者不断犯错的事实。赫斯特的《樱花》色彩丰富，数量惊人，既是对19和20世纪绘画艺术的借用，也是对历史经典的致敬。

达米安·赫斯特（生于1965年）在20世纪90年代崭露头角，当时作为“英国青年艺术家”中的一员，因其颇具争议的现场作品而备受关注。赫斯特1989年毕业于金史密斯学院，1995年获得特纳奖。他是当代艺术界举足轻重的人物之一，作品种类繁多，从雕塑和绘画到装置艺术和表演艺术，持续为观众带来惊喜。2012年，他近30年职业生涯的回顾展在泰特现代美术馆举行。赫斯特的作品由高古轩画廊代理。

Incandescent and celebratory paintings of cherry blossoms from Damien Hirst, in a glorious oversize volume with 18 gatefold spreads

With 107 new works, Cherry Blossoms marks a new chapter in Damien Hirst’s career-long exploration of the physical relationship between artist and canvas that began with his Spot Paintings in 1986. Hirst describes his cherry blossoms as "garish and messy and fragile”; the series signals a shift in Hirst’s career away from minimalism and “the imagined mechanical painter” toward a painting that delights in the potential haphazardness of the medium, as well as the artist’s own fallibility as a creator. Rich in color and striking in number, Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms are both an appropriation and a tribute to the pictorial art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Damien Hirst (born 1965) rose to prominence in the 1990s as one of the Young British Artists, garnering attention for his controversial site-specific pieces. A 1989 graduate of Goldsmiths College, Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Now one of the contemporary art world’s most famous figures, Hirst continues to surprise audiences with a staggering diversity of work, ranging from sculpture and painting to installation and performance art. In 2012, a retrospective of his nearly 30-year career was staged at Tate Modern. Hirst is represented by Gagosian.