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Stop - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2017 - MyArtBroker

Stop
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

Stop is one of twelve prints that compose the Eat the Rich series. The series is inspired by modern medicine and each print depicts a different box of tablets. For each print in the series, Hirst replaces the tablets’ brand name with a unique word implying violence, force or aggression. The understated designs in the series reflect the confidence in modern medicine and scientific developments to be able to cure anything and everything.

Hirst has long been interested in the aesthetics of pharmaceutical packaging. While the artist was studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, he produced an installation known as the Medicine Cabinets in which he created various medicine cabinets and filled them with the empty bottles and boxes of his grandmother’s old medications. Stop and the other prints in the Eat the Rich series follow on from Hirst’s early fascination in medicine and themes of life and death.

  • 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.