Cathedral Print: Duomo
Damien Hirst
Cathedral Print: Duomo
screenprint
2007
An original hand-signed Damien Hirst screenprint print.
2007
Original screeprint with glazes and pearlized colors on wove paper.
Hand-signed in black marker lower right Damien Hirst.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 50, numbered in marker lower left. This plate is one of eight from the artist’s series Cathedral Prints. Published by Other Criteria, New York.
47 3/8 x 47 3/8 inches
This screenprint was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Damien Hirst: Superstition,” at Gagosian Gallery, London & Beverly Hills.
Damien Hirst’s Cathedral prints are modeled after his Superstition paintings of 2006, these radiating compositions of meticulously arranged butterfly wings create intricate patterns of dazzling shapes and colors that evoke the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals, in this case Florence’s Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, a 13th century structure nicknamed the Duomo after its enormous octagonal dome. By allying the fragility of the butterfly wings with the monumentality of religious art, these prints engage the big existential themes – nature, life, religion – that have defined Hirst’s career.
