Better Hold your nose Front
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Better Hold your nose Front* distils the artist’s enduring preoccupation with mortality into an image of unnerving clarity. Employing a cool, clinical aesthetic and tightly controlled presentation, Hirst draws on the visual language of medicine and display—strategies that both seduce and repel. The work’s frontal address intensifies its confrontational impact, inviting the viewer into an uneasy proximity with themes of contamination, preservation, and the fragile boundary between the body and its systems of care. Chromatic restraint and meticulous finish heighten the sense of sterile order, while the title punctures that composure with dark humour, implicating the senses and the viewer’s own physicality. Significant within Hirst’s oeuvre, the piece exemplifies his ability to make conceptual inquiry instantly visceral.
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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