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Damien Hirst, Second series biopsy: M122/105

Second series biopsy: M122/105
Artist: Damien Hirst 
Title: Second series biopsy: M122/105
Medium: Painting
Edition: 1
Size: 160 x 121.9 cm
Year: 2008
Markings: Signed
UV inks and household gloss on canvas with glass, scalpel blades, flocking and religious medals. Damien Hirst has become the best-known artist of his generation, and much of his work for which he is now famed dwells on the theme of mortality. Consistent with this, his Biopsy Paintings series envision the microstructures of various forms of cancer and other diseases. Upon seeing these paintings, the spectator is at first impressed by the beauty of the abstraction, but are soon struck by the shocking content when viewing the works more closely. Contrasting aesthetics with underlying truth, the Biopsy Paintings spark a discourse about the discrepancy between appearance and reality. Following the tradition of Northern European still-life artists, Hirst uses broken glass, a scalpel and razor blades, hair, and blood-like pools of paint to create modern-day vanitas paintings.
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