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Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 6–8pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
The Britannia Street gallery will be open after hours to visit Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings, the second phase of the artist’s yearlong takeover of the space. For this new iteration, the artist has clad the interior of the gallery in black butterfly-patterned wallpaper that reproduces the kaleidoscopic surface of his painting Valley of Death (2010). With its uniquely immersive atmosphere, the exhibition brings together a number of Hirst’s bodies of work, prompting reflections on themes of darkness and death, the past and the future.
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Installation view, Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, open from June 5, 2021. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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Steven Parrino
April 4–7, 2022
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione, Paris
For four nights the rue de Castiglione gallery will be open until 8pm for after-hours viewing of Steven Parrino, an exhibition featuring manipulated canvas paintings, works in sprayed enamel on vellum, and other works on paper. The show is anchored by three large paintings: Touch and Go (1989–95), Spin-Out Vortex (Black Hole) (2000), and The Self-Mutilation Bootleg 2 (The Open Grave) (1988/2003). Initially grouped with the Neo-Geo and Appropriation artists of 1980s downtown New York, Parrino ultimately pursued a more idiosyncratic and iconoclastic vision.
Steven Parrino, Touch and Go, 1989–95 © Steven Parrino, courtesy the Parrino Family Estate. Photo: Rob McKeever
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
March 27–30, 2024
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Gagosian is participating in Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 with a selection of works by international contemporary artists. The works on view, which embrace a dizzying variety of subjects and approaches, see the participating artists identify fresh ways to disrupt established histories of abstraction and figuration, and instill sculptural and painterly representations of the natural world with complex cultural significance.
Sarah Sze, Turning and Turning, 2024 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Maris Hutchinson
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Damien Hirst
The Light That Shines
March 2–June 23, 2024
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
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Damien Hirst takes over the entire estate at Château La Coste, filling its 500 acres and five exhibition pavilions, designed by world-renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers, with sculptures and paintings from some of his most iconic series. The presentation also features work that has never been exhibited before, including The Empress Paintings, Cosmos Paintings, and sculptures from his Meteorites and Satellites series. A selection of outdoor sculptures are sited across the estate, including at Frank Gehry’s Music Pavilion and the Tadao Ando Art Centre, in addition to artwork inside the pavilions.
Installation view, Damien Hirst: The Light That Shines, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, March 2–June 23, 2024. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
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