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Eat - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2017 - MyArtBroker

Eat
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 150

Year: 2017

Size: H 102cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Meaning & Analysis

Eat is one of twelve prints that compose Hirst’s Eat the Rich series. Each print in the series is inspired by pharmaceutical packaging. The pharmaceutical products in the series are given unusual names which tend to carry violent or aggressive connotations, which contrasts with the healing properties medicine is meant to bring. Like Hirst’s series of silkscreen prints, The Last Supper, Eat the Rich is a series which also explores Hirst’s obsession with the human body, life and death and mortality.

As well as being interested in the body and how medicine interacts with it, Hirst has had a long-standing fascination with the pharmaceutical industry. This interest was first pursued at the start of Hirst’s artistic career with his Medicine Cabinets series which the artist produced while studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London in the late 1980s.

  • 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.