"I can't wait to get into the position where I can make really bad art and get away with it"
HIRST, Damien. I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions. 1997.
[offered with:] The Big Issue. The Damien Hirst Edition. 1997.
1) Large 4to (29x34cm); Pebble/grained red cloth embossed with black lettering and gilt Hirst logo additionally lettered in blind; Original unclipped dust jacket illustrated with the periodic table over a wraparound photograph of a hospital room; Front pastedown and endpaper decorated with interior shot of an ambulance; Author's signature to half title; pp. [5] 6-313 [11]; near fine copy.
First Edition signed by Damien Hirst with poster loosely inserted.
Illustrated with a kalidoscopic variety of pop-ups, moveable plates, die-cuts and an entirely unique foray into graphic design, this is the very first publication from the iconic artist, Damien Hirst, and covers his entire body of work from sculpture art to cinema. Expressed in his own words, and accompanied by 700 photographs, each chronological chapter is what writer and contributing editor Gordon Burn describes as ideas stemming from a "brilliant, sordid, uncompromising and twisted imagination".
Claiming precedence on the art scene in the late 1980's, Hirst originally curated the Freeze artistic assembly, an exhibition seperated in three parts which championed the works of Young British Artists, later known as the YBA, and he woud go on to become one of the most controversial artists of our time. This landmark of modern printing from the United Kingdom's reportedly richest living artists demonsrates through an entirely novel visual narrative the scale and impact he has generated.
"People are afraid of change, so you create a kind of belief for them through repetition. It’s like breathing. I’ve always been drawn to series and pairs. A unique thing is quite a frightening object."- Damien Hirst
2) HIRST, Damien (editor). The Big Issue. The Damien Hirst Edition. London, The Big Issue. December 8 1997.
Rare Magazine 4to. Original illustrated self-wrappers; wire stitched; pp. 46 [2]; rear cover with one fold; toned in places as usual.
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