Ciclopirox Olamine
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Ciclopirox Olamine* extends his iconic investigations into medicine, belief, and contemporary desire for control. Drawing on the visual grammar of pharmaceuticals, Hirst employs a cool, clinical finish and high-key colour to evoke the seductive authority of the lab—where cures, commodities, and faith in systems converge. The work’s title, referencing an antifungal agent, underscores Hirst’s ongoing dialogue with the body’s fragility and the market’s promise of remedy, situating the piece within his wider practice of confronting mortality through polished spectacle. At once minimalist and loaded with cultural meaning, *Ciclopirox Olamine* reads as a sharp portrait of late-capitalist healthcare: reassuring, regulated, and quietly uncanny.
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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