Here is the first video of a new occasional series of found video gems of the world wide web which we are calling FAD TV up first Damien Hirst talking about Francis Bacon form 2008 on the occassion of Francis Bacon’s retrospective at Tate Britain.
He tells us why he loves the Crucifixion and Head series’: detail that vanishes the closer you get, paint like blood and guts. ‘That’s probably why I love Bacon paintings. When I first saw them they reminded me of places I’d seen in nightmares.’
Damien Hirst’s has taken over Gagosian’s Britannia Street gallery . Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures is an exhibition of rarely seen works by Damien Hirst created between 1993 and 2021.
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists