The Cure (frigate, chocolate, rose pink)
The Cure (frigate, chocolate, rose pink)
Signed Print
Damien Hirst
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 15
Year: 2014
Size: H 72cm x W 51cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Meaning & Analysis
The Cure (frigate, chocolate, rose pink) a silkscreen print by renowned contemporary artist, Damien Hirst. Printed on Somerset Tub and produced in 2014, in this print Hirst depicts a two-colour pill, rendered in chocolate and rose pink against a frigate backdrop.
The print is part of The Cure series, which is composed of thirty prints, each depicting an identical pill. What makes each of these prints unique is their individual colour combinations. While Hirst tends to use bold and vibrant colours, the colours in this print are less warm and bright, making the print stand out from the others in the series.
Hirst has had a longstanding interest in medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. The artist first created a series of works in the 1980s inspired by medicine cabinets. The Medicine Cabinet series was an installation which involved the artist filling medicine cabinets with his grandmother’s old medication. Hirst was fascinated by the interaction between the human body and modern medicine, which leads to themes of life and death, myth and medicine being explored in his work.
The Cure (frigate, chocolate, rose pink) is inspired by the simple and minimalist aesthetic of pharmaceutical products. The simplicity represents the confidence with which pharmaceutical companies market themselves and their ability to cure everyone and everything.
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.
