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.

Since Damien Hirst first came to public attention in 1988, when he conceived and curated the exhibition Freeze, he has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. Among his most famous and groundbreaking works areThe Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), Mother and Child Divided (1993) and For the Love of God (2007). In addition to these installations and sculptures, his Spot and Butterfly Paintings have become universally recognized.

Spots are a signature feature within the artist's ouevre: existing in the majority of cultures, Hirst has used this basic geometric form as the focus of his work to infinite variation.

The present work offers a different interpretation of this theme: designed in 1997, Ho, Ho, Ho! (Christmas Greetings from Momart and Damien Hirst) is a Christmas Card consisting of a clear boxed perspex paperweight decorated with a screenprinted pattern of white dots. The dots remind us of Hirst's celebrated Spot paintings and prints, but here the use of white suggests the falling of snow, recalling a frozen minimalist snow dome. Indeed, this perspex "spot sculpture" was created for Momart, the British fine art handling company, which every year commissions an artist to design the corporate Christmas greeting which it sends to customers and contacts in the art world in place of a traditional greeting card.

Ho, Ho, Ho! was issued as an edition of 1700 and comes signed in white crayon by Damien Hirst.

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“ The spot paintings are definitely Conceptual art. There’s an optimism to them which is amazing. They never look tired. „

—Damien Hirst