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Auction archive: Lot number 8

Damien Hirst

Estimate
US$5,000,000 - US$7,000,000
Price realised:
US$5,250,000
Auction archive: Lot number 8

Damien Hirst

Estimate
US$5,000,000 - US$7,000,000
Price realised:
US$5,250,000
Beschreibung:

◆ 8 Property from a Distinguished European Collection Damien Hirst Follow The Void glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminum, nickel, bismuth and cast resin, colored plaster and painted pills with dry transfers 92 7/8 x 185 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. (235.9 x 470.9 x 10.8 cm.) Executed in 2000.
Provenance Gagosian Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000 Exhibited New York, Gagosian Gallery, Damien Hirst Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings , September 23 - December 16, 2000, pp. 75-77 (illustrated) Berlin, Ausstellungsraum Céline und Heiner Bastian, Damien Hirst Void , November 10, 2007 - April 19, 2008, no. 3, pp. 22-25 (illustrated) Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, temporary loan, September 2004 - October 2012 Literature Damien Hirst and Gordon Burn, On the Way to Work , London, 2001, pp. 115-116 John C. Welchman, Sculpture and the Vitrine , Farnham, 2013, p. 248 Video Revisiting ‘The Void’: Francesco Bonami on Hirst’s Iconic Early Pill Cabinet "Each pill, hand-crafted as its own sculpture, represents a state of mind and the way we as individuals today can control the feelings in our bodies and minds. As one of the earliest works in this series, the artist's hand is more evident than in examples that have followed. The work is really a cornerstone of Damien Hirst's career, that has been largely defined by the artist's meditation on the human condition in contemporary society." Catalogue Essay Damien Hirst’s The Void is the largest of his Pill Cabinets ever to come to auction and one of the first he ever made. Within a vast, searching oeuvre , the series of Pill Cabinets make up but a tiny part of the artist’s creative universe. Three of the top seven prices achieved at auction for Hirst’s work are for Pill Cabinets , including the current record for the smaller, later example Lullaby Spring . The Void is the first Pill Cabinet the artist showed in a commercial exhibition – his seminal and celebrated Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York – and it is the first Pill Cabinet he showed in the United States. Other examples can be found in such esteemed Foundations as the Broad Museum or the Pinault Foundation, and in museums such as the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen – Museum Brandhorst in Munich and the Leeum Museum in Seoul. The rarity and significance of the Pill Cabinets series; the importance of this example being the first ever exhibited Stateside; and the monumental scale and dazzling visual complexity of this example, all combine to elevate the prominence of The Void making it one of, if not the most important work of art by Damien Hirst to come to auction. Like the other Pill Cabinets , The Void is a deeply-wrought, highly-stylized, pristine object that orbits around many of Hirst’s chief artistic concerns: the exploration of the binaries of life and death; the division yet synergy between art and science; the dialectic proposed between the time-consuming laboriousness of his process and fabrication with the presentational immediacy of the aesthetic and intellectual impact achieved when confronting an object like The Void . The same formal structure and presentational logic of sliding glass doors, mirrored back, and shiny, sterilized, stainless steel casing are enlivened and individualized by the display of hand-made and hand-painted pills lined up with acute, surgical precision along razor sharp shelves. The intricacy of the pills, individually cast in metal, plaster, and resin and executed on such a small scale and with such attention to detail and craftsmanship, is at odds with the massive, surgical space that they inhabit. Litotes and hyperbole here become blood brothers, both working together to engender an almost ethereal artistic experience. As such, when one confronts one of these clinical cabinets, and especially one as large and impressive as The Void , the viewer cannot help but be utterly spellbound by the kaleidoscopic display of waves of complex color assonances and dissonances that the multitude of pills reflect in the sparkling mirror behind. In this sophisticated, seemingly haphazard yet absolutely prede

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2017
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

◆ 8 Property from a Distinguished European Collection Damien Hirst Follow The Void glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminum, nickel, bismuth and cast resin, colored plaster and painted pills with dry transfers 92 7/8 x 185 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. (235.9 x 470.9 x 10.8 cm.) Executed in 2000.
Provenance Gagosian Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000 Exhibited New York, Gagosian Gallery, Damien Hirst Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings , September 23 - December 16, 2000, pp. 75-77 (illustrated) Berlin, Ausstellungsraum Céline und Heiner Bastian, Damien Hirst Void , November 10, 2007 - April 19, 2008, no. 3, pp. 22-25 (illustrated) Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, temporary loan, September 2004 - October 2012 Literature Damien Hirst and Gordon Burn, On the Way to Work , London, 2001, pp. 115-116 John C. Welchman, Sculpture and the Vitrine , Farnham, 2013, p. 248 Video Revisiting ‘The Void’: Francesco Bonami on Hirst’s Iconic Early Pill Cabinet "Each pill, hand-crafted as its own sculpture, represents a state of mind and the way we as individuals today can control the feelings in our bodies and minds. As one of the earliest works in this series, the artist's hand is more evident than in examples that have followed. The work is really a cornerstone of Damien Hirst's career, that has been largely defined by the artist's meditation on the human condition in contemporary society." Catalogue Essay Damien Hirst’s The Void is the largest of his Pill Cabinets ever to come to auction and one of the first he ever made. Within a vast, searching oeuvre , the series of Pill Cabinets make up but a tiny part of the artist’s creative universe. Three of the top seven prices achieved at auction for Hirst’s work are for Pill Cabinets , including the current record for the smaller, later example Lullaby Spring . The Void is the first Pill Cabinet the artist showed in a commercial exhibition – his seminal and celebrated Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York – and it is the first Pill Cabinet he showed in the United States. Other examples can be found in such esteemed Foundations as the Broad Museum or the Pinault Foundation, and in museums such as the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen – Museum Brandhorst in Munich and the Leeum Museum in Seoul. The rarity and significance of the Pill Cabinets series; the importance of this example being the first ever exhibited Stateside; and the monumental scale and dazzling visual complexity of this example, all combine to elevate the prominence of The Void making it one of, if not the most important work of art by Damien Hirst to come to auction. Like the other Pill Cabinets , The Void is a deeply-wrought, highly-stylized, pristine object that orbits around many of Hirst’s chief artistic concerns: the exploration of the binaries of life and death; the division yet synergy between art and science; the dialectic proposed between the time-consuming laboriousness of his process and fabrication with the presentational immediacy of the aesthetic and intellectual impact achieved when confronting an object like The Void . The same formal structure and presentational logic of sliding glass doors, mirrored back, and shiny, sterilized, stainless steel casing are enlivened and individualized by the display of hand-made and hand-painted pills lined up with acute, surgical precision along razor sharp shelves. The intricacy of the pills, individually cast in metal, plaster, and resin and executed on such a small scale and with such attention to detail and craftsmanship, is at odds with the massive, surgical space that they inhabit. Litotes and hyperbole here become blood brothers, both working together to engender an almost ethereal artistic experience. As such, when one confronts one of these clinical cabinets, and especially one as large and impressive as The Void , the viewer cannot help but be utterly spellbound by the kaleidoscopic display of waves of complex color assonances and dissonances that the multitude of pills reflect in the sparkling mirror behind. In this sophisticated, seemingly haphazard yet absolutely prede

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2017
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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