![]() Brooklyn-based creative collective MSCHF, which managed to purchase a limited print of Hirst’s $30,000 spot painting L-Isoleucine T-Butyl Ester, which Hirst created in 2018, decided to “indulge in a bit of creative destruction.” (The actual spot painting themselves usually sell for upwards of $1 million). A printed version of one of those colorful and dizzyingly grid-like works – which first appeared in the mid-1980s and have been produced almost every year since (as of 2012, Hirst said that he had been producing an average of 60 spot paintings a year) and which largely come with names “titles that are taken arbitrarily from the chemical company Sigma-Aldrich’s catalogue ‘Biochemicals for Research and Diagnostic Reagents,’ a book Hirst stumbled across in the early 1990’s” – is now the center of another largely controversial work.Īs it turns out, while 54-year old, British-born Hirst was busy creating a rainbow design to “pay tribute to the wonderful work staff are doing in hospitals around the country,” a group of American artists were crafting something of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among some of the “most widely recognized works” of Damien Hirst come from a series a spot-centric paintings. ![]()
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