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Memento 8 - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2008 - MyArtBroker

Memento 8
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Intaglio

Edition size: 30

Year: 2008

Size: H 120cm x W 108cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Meaning & Analysis

Much like the butterflies in the Memento series, the skulls that Hirst depicts are each unique and represent human mortality in a clinical way, providing the viewer with a final image of death, the remainders of a human face. Fascinated by death as a subject for artistic investigation, Hirst does not represent decay or fear of death, but instead transforms this image of mortality in an aestheticized symbol. Set in dialogue with the butterflies in the first half of the Memento series, the skull stands in for the transitory nature of life and resurrection.

This series was created a year after Hirst’s iconic For The Love Of God (2007) diamond-studded skull sculpture. Much of Hirst’s printed editions are reminiscent of his most famous sculptural and installation works, making clear his obsession with certain motifs and themes surrounding life and death, beauty and decay, desire and fear, love and loss.

  • 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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