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Spinning Around - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2002 - MyArtBroker

Spinning Around
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 68

Year: 2002

Size: H 124cm x W 104cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Damien Hirst's Spinning Around (signed) is an etching from 2002, with an estimated value between £1,500 and £2,250. This artwork has been sold once at auction since its entry to the market in July 2023. The hammer price for this sale was £1,070. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 68.

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Auction Results

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July 2023Leonard Joel, Melbourne Australia

Meaning & Analysis

To create the In A Spin, The Action Of The World On Things, Hirst attached copper plates to a spin machine in his studio, drawing on them with sharp tools as the machine rotated. The use of the rotating machine is reminiscent of the optical experiments of the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp from the 1920s and ’30s. While Duchamp used motorised spinning devices to create optical illusions, Hirst instead uses a spin machine towards aesthetic and expressionistic ends.

Hirst’s aim to create these spin works for aesthetic purposes was made clear in his 1994 installation exhibition, Making Beautiful Drawings. During this exhibition, visitors could create their own spin drawings on a pedal-powered turntable machine, highlighting Hirst’s interest in interrogating originality and repetition throughout his artistic oeuvre.

  • 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.

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