DAMIEN HIRST – FORGOTTEN PROMISES

Posted on 2011-01-10

In recent years, Hirst has developed his familiar iconography – the skull, the diamond and the butterfly – to explore fundamental ideas about existence. His work highlights the duality that lies at the heart of human experience, from our inexorable struggles between life and death, beauty and decay, desire and fear, love and loss.
The exhibition also includes a series of brilliant diamond cabinets. Forgotten Sorrows, Lost Friends, and Tears of Joy (all 2010) seem optimistic, yet their titles suggest more contemplative notions of memory, melancholy, and loss. A group of paintings (2008-2009) including Age of Magnificence and Fading Magnificence have real butterflies entombed in layers of shiny metallic paint.

Opposite – Cupid’s Lie, 2008, Gold

Exhibition runs from January 18th to March 19th, 2011

Gagosian Gallery
12 Pedder Street, 7/F
Central
Hong Kong B

www.gagosian.com

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NEW BANKSY PIECE

Posted on 2011-01-10

New Banksy piece near the Passport Collections Building, Bridge Place, Victoria, London.
Be quick!

www.banksy.co.uk

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HAJIME SORAYAMA EXHIBITION

Posted on 2011-01-10

Beginning with paintings on paperboard from the 1970’s and extending into his most recent pieces, the exhibition highlights several bodies of work, all created by hand in acrylic with several different recognizable techniques. Sorayama’s famous Gynoids and “sexy robots” feature what at first glance appear to be utopic visions of the future female, now retro when set against 21st century New York. In another series of women adorned in draping kimonos under phallic trees with Japanese script scrolled down the side, Sorayama creates images of 17th century Kyoto courtesans with Anglo-Saxon features, providing us with a historical lineage for desire in the East. The Western counterpart takes the form of traditional pin-ups, seducing the gaze of the viewer. Finally, Sorayama’s notoriously naughty ladies of the boudoir appear in leather, lace, silk ribbons, and metal chains, eyes firmly fixed on their audience.

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2011

Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10019

www.alminerech.com

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