Damien Hirst - Mandalas and Stained Glass Windows

Damien Hirst. I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds. 2006 (17 feet long)
All photos are from the Damien Hirst website:
www.damienhirst.com.

Butterflies -- themselves images of transcendence, bodies broken and recreated, re-imagined with the most fragile of wings, released from gravity. Here combined in forms designed by those of us still-earthbound in order to contemplate the skies.

Damien Hirst. I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds, 2006. Detail.

Damien Hirst. Doorways to the Kingdom of Heaven, 2007.

Damien Hirst, Doorways to the Kingdom of Heaven, 2007. Detail.

Damien Hirst. Sympathy in White Major: Absolution II. 2006

Damien Hirst. Sympathy in White Major: Absolution II. 2006. Detail.

Damien Hirst. Eternity. 2002 to 2004.
(This was not at the Tate Modern exhibit.)

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst with For the Love of God, platinum, diamond, human teeth, 2007

I was fortunate enough to be able to see the Damien Hirst exhibit at the Tate Modern in London this summer. The following posts are about pieces of his work as I experienced it there. (Sadly, I did not get to see For the Love of God, pictured above.)

"In (Damien) Hirst's work, truth resides not in absolutes, but in dualities and in the continual push and pull between them: 'Life and death are the biggest polar opposites there are. I like love and I like hate ... I like all those opposites. On and off. Happy and sad. In an artwork, I always try to say something and deny it at the same time.'"

-- Anne Gallagher, from the curatorial text accompanying the Damien Hirst  retrospective at the Tate Modern, 2012