Gold Thioglucose
Gold Thioglucose
Signed Print
Damien Hirst
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 45
Year: 2009
Size: H 76cm x W 93cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Sotheby's Online | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2020 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2018 | Ketterer Kunst Hamburg | Germany | |||
| April 2018 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| September 2013 | Sotheby's London | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2012 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| March 2012 | Christie's London | United Kingdom |
Meaning & Analysis
Gold Thioglucose is a screen print from 2009 by Damien Hirst produced in an edition of 45. Showing a large grid of coloured dots, evenly distributed across the print, this work is a print edition of one of Hirst’s famous Spots paintings. No coloured dot is the same in this rectangular composition and the systematic grid is set against a gold backdrop.
Each with the same pictorial and optical efficiency it is almost impossible to decipher each of Hirst’s Spots paintings from one another. Gold Thioglucose, however, differs from many of the Spots paintings in its use of a gold backdrop. Despite their deceiving simplicity, these works are laborious and painstaking to produce. They are also deceptive in their joyous appearance, as Hirst has explained: “If you look closely at any one of these paintings, a strange thing happens: because of the lack of repeated colours there is no harmony…So in every painting there is a subliminal sense of unease: the colours project so much joy it’s hard to feel it, but it’s there.”
Integral to the impact of the Spots paintings is their endlessness and infinite potential towards many various colour combinations. This print is almost mathematical in its formulaic composition that is repeated across all the Spot paintings, with grids of various sizes. In the 1980s, the Spots paintings marked a shift in Hirst’s artistic career, where he began to employ assistants to complete the painstaking and laborious task of producing these works. The apparent lack of human intervention in Gold Thioglucose further emphasises the mathematical precision that underlines their compositions.
Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.
