Victory over Death and more art by Damien Hirst

(Gift Print, 2013)

One of the most prominent members of the YBAs (Young British Artists), a group that emerged in the UK during the 1990, Damian Hirst challenges the boundaries between art, science, and commerce. Investigating mortality, Hirst makes sculptures, installations, paintings, and prints that dazzle and provoke. Whether presenting a shark in formaldehyde; actual insects and butterflies; pills inside glittering glass cases; infinite series of dotted prints and paintings named after psychotropic chemical compounds, or a human skull recreated in platinum and encrusted with thousands of diamonds, his works ultimately belong to the art historical tradition of the memento mori (remember death). The photogravure etching reprises his sculpture For the Love of God, 2007.