Psalm- Domine Ne In Furore
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About This Work
In *Psalm – Domine Ne In Furore*, Damien Hirst extends his long-standing enquiry into faith, mortality, and the seductions of belief. Drawing on the penitential urgency of Psalm 6 (“Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger”), the work fuses devotional language with Hirst’s clinically charged visual rhetoric, where surface, repetition, and precision become a contemporary form of liturgy. Executed with a controlled, high-gloss finish and an exacting sense of scale, the composition stages a tension between reverence and spectacle—at once elegiac and confrontational. Positioned within postmodern debates on spirituality in a secular age, the piece resonates as both memento mori and cultural critique, reaffirming Hirst’s central role in contemporary British art.
About the Artist
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
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