Damien Hirst - The art of

Damien Hirst (Bristol, June 7, 1965), one of the world's most renowned living contemporary artists. His extreme and excessive form of art is rarely uncontroversial. Decadent classical beauty, a search of the inner self to the conceptual. Damien Hirst celebrates life, set against the inescapable urgent end. Metaphors of pharmacology and medical knowledge, media propaganda and alienating nature return in the form and content of his work, influenced by Francis Bacon, English punk and pop art of the 60s. Media often associates his work with death but Damien Hirst as easy celebrates love, often with almost poetic approach.

With the extencive exhibition Damien Hirst! Kunsthuis Amsterdam is showing an unprecedented selection of over 60 recent works by the famous British artist.