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Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Framed
Condition: very good, no visible damage
Like lot 42 in this auction, this work is a collaboration with Anthony Haden-Guest. In a project for Radar magazine called “Talking Heads,” a Xeroxed copy of an illustratedprofile was sent to artists and celebrities, inviting them to embellish the figure and to express what’s on his/her mind.
In this piece, Damien Hirst composes a portrait with spent cigarette butts transformed into a smoked-mohawk, giving an ironic “Punks Not Dead” vibe. Much of Damien Hirst’s work is preoccupied with meditations on life and death— most easily recognizable in his famous, if controversial, animal carcasses suspended in formaldehyde. Hirst also uses the imagery of the cigarette to reflect on life and death: “The whole smoking thing is like a mini life cycle,” the artist has said. “For me the cigarette can stand for life, the packet with its possible cigarettes stands for birth, the lighter can signify God which gives life to the whole situation, the ashtray represents death” (Adrian Dannatt, “Life’s Like This, Then It Stops: Interview with Damien Hirst,” Flash Art, no. 261, July – Sept. 2008, https://www.flashartonline.com/article/damien-hirst-3/).
—Courtesy of Capsule Auction Gallery
- Materials
- Mixed media, ink, smoked cigarette butts taped down on xerographic print of head in profile by Anthony Haden-Guest
- Size
- 11 × 8 1/2 in | 27.9 × 21.6 cm
- Rarity
- Medium
- Signature
- Signed by Damien Hirst, lower right
from Talking Heads, 2000
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Framed
Condition: very good, no visible damage
Like lot 42 in this auction, this work is a collaboration with Anthony Haden-Guest. In a project for Radar magazine called “Talking Heads,” a Xeroxed copy of an illustratedprofile was sent to artists and celebrities, inviting them to embellish the figure and to express what’s on his/her mind.
In this piece, Damien Hirst composes a portrait with spent cigarette butts transformed into a smoked-mohawk, giving an ironic “Punks Not Dead” vibe. Much of Damien Hirst’s work is preoccupied with meditations on life and death— most easily recognizable in his famous, if controversial, animal carcasses suspended in formaldehyde. Hirst also uses the imagery of the cigarette to reflect on life and death: “The whole smoking thing is like a mini life cycle,” the artist has said. “For me the cigarette can stand for life, the packet with its possible cigarettes stands for birth, the lighter can signify God which gives life to the whole situation, the ashtray represents death” (Adrian Dannatt, “Life’s Like This, Then It Stops: Interview with Damien Hirst,” Flash Art, no. 261, July – Sept. 2008, https://www.flashartonline.com/article/damien-hirst-3/).
—Courtesy of Capsule Auction Gallery
- Materials
- Mixed media, ink, smoked cigarette butts taped down on xerographic print of head in profile by Anthony Haden-Guest
- Size
- 11 × 8 1/2 in | 27.9 × 21.6 cm
- Rarity
- Medium
- Signature
- Signed by Damien Hirst, lower right
