Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Damien Hirst Kiev Retrospective
Image: artnet
The most comprehensive Damien Hirst museum exhibition opens later this week at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. Entitled Requiem, the retrospective will feature over 100 works from 1990-2008 and serve as the debut for the mega-star’s recent series of (not spin art) human skull paintings, which were surprisingly executed by Hirst himself.
It should come as no surprise that several pieces in the exhibit were on the block last year at Hirst’s now infamous Beautiful Inside My Head Forever auction with Sotheby’s. In fact, Victor Pinchuk himself (an ex Member of Ukrainian Parliament and billionaire businessman and philanthropist listed as the 246th richest person in the world, whose interests span steel, banking and media) is rumored to have been a secret buyer at the sale and major customer with White Cube, Hirst’s London Gallery.
Damien Hirst – Requiem opens April 25 and runs till September 20, 2009 at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev.
Hirst’s Death Explained, 2007, will be on view at the Pinchuk Art Centre as part of Requiem, the artist’s first major exhibition in Ukraine.
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June 10th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
the art collectors » Fourth Owner of Hirst Skull Outed said:
[…] by the Washington Post as a fourth part-owner of the skull. No wonder he is currently hosting a major Hirst retrospective at his own Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev. Posted by ATARMS | Filed in Artist Talk, Market Talk, […]
June 12th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Fourth Owner of Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull Revealed - ANIMAL said:
[…] Love of God,” debuted at the White Cube Gallery in London and quickly sold, the fourth part owner has been revealed. Constructed from $23 million in materials, including 8,601 diamonds, the dome piece was bought for […]
June 12th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Fourth Owner of Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull Revealed - Daily Buzz said:
[…] Love of God,” debuted at the White Cube Gallery in London and quickly sold, the fourth part owner has been revealed. Constructed from $23 million in materials, including 8,601 diamonds, the dome piece was bought for […]