Damien Hirst again in Kiev

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"Requiem". By Damien Hirst /Requiem by Damien Hirst
April 25, 2009 - September 20, 2009

Art - is always open for something new, and we all desperately trying to invent a better future and draw lessons from the past. "
Damien Hirst
PinchukArtCentre presents a new exhibition "Requiem" - a major retrospective of works by Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), which includes more than one hundred works created from the early 90's to the present day. Within the exhibition will be held the world premiere of a new pictorial cycle Skull paintings, created from 2006 to 2008. The exhibition will be held from 25 April to 20 September 2009. The exhibition will include works that have already gained worldwide fame and reflect the diversity of creative experience Hirst. Among them are such early religious sculpture as "A Thousand Years of» (A Thousand Years, 1990) and "Requiem brings» (Away from the Flock, 1994), and the relatively recent work, 2007 - "The gates of the kingdom of heaven» (Doorways to the Kingdom of Heaven), a monumental triptych with butterflies, and "Explanation of death» (Death Explained), cut in half shark in a tank of formaldehyde.