Cineole
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About This Work
In *Cineole*, Damien Hirst conjures a sensorial encounter where clinical order and visceral allure converge. The title—evoking the medicinal clarity of eucalyptus oil—suggests purification and intoxication in equal measure, a duality central to Hirst’s practice. With a restrained, high-gloss finish and precise, almost laboratory discipline, the work stages colour and surface as both seduction and specimen. Its measured composition invites close looking, while subtle chromatic tensions generate a lingering optical afterimage. *Cineole* extends Hirst’s ongoing examination of belief, healing, and mortality, translating contemporary anxieties into an image of immaculate, unsettling beauty.
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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