The Turner prize winner and epicenter of the YBA movement. Hirst's emblematic art of our era revolutionizes the art market. Hirst is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today, creating truly iconic artworks.

A genuine star of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, Damien Hirst has always made a point of mixing up different media. Whether as a sculptor, an installation artist, a painter, or a printmaker, Hirst has produced many of the most spectacular and widely discussed works in recent years and helped to revolutionize the art market. Damien Hirst’s, For the Love of God, the diamond-encrusted replica of the skull of a thirty-five-year-old man from the thirteenth century, broke all records to become the most expensive contemporary artwork in the world. Damien Hirst´s artworks are truly emblematic icons of our era, with their recurring motives such as dots, butterflies, cows, sharks, skulls, pills, and pharmacy cabinets. His works, captivating and intense as they are, challenge our stereotyped concepts and beliefs. Damien Hirst’s shark, suspended in formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), is widely recognized, as are his real butterflies suspended in paint or thousands of butterfly wings arranged in a mandala-like pattern – the famous Damien Hirst butterfly paintings. Since 1986 he has been producing the Spot paintings (sometimes called Dot Paintings), a series of paintings with evocative pharmacological titles, which display lines of colored spots. Damien Hirst´s Spot paintings and his Spin paintings became iconic series. Inspired by such diverse themes as life, death, art, science, and medicine, Damien Hirst’s art takes a direct and challenging approach to ideas about existence. The energy and inventiveness are also to be found in Damien Hirst's prints, which continue to stir controversy within the viewer with the same intensity.

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, a poster boy for the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in late 1980s London, is one of the most notorious artists of his generation.

This medicine cabinet, part of the Utopia series, with its technical flawness, serves as a shrine to modern pharmaceuticals, arising a discussion on Hirst´s often postulated parallel between medicine and art. It intends to provoke a critical dialogue questioning people´s completely reliance on medicaments and their power to heel and human aspiration to live forever. However the question is: can drugs cure this problem, or can art?

In this Chromogenic Color Print representing one of Damien Hirst’s signature ‘Medicine Cabinets’ the viewer is confronted with an art crafted cabinet contains pharmaceuticals, arranged to convey a sense of antiseptic orderliness, which discloses an unmistakable pharmaceutical aesthetic. Damien Hirst has been investigating the relationship between medicine and art since 1989 when he submitted a suite of twelve cabinets as his thesis at Goldsmith’s College of Art in London.

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“ I cannot understand why some people believe completely in medicine and not in art, without questioning either. „

—Damien Hirst