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The Secrets Realisation H14-1

Damien Hirst

The Secrets Realisation H14-1

2024

Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel

120 × 93 cm

Ed. / 395 — Signed and numbered, including Printed COA

Location: London, United Kingdom

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About the artwork

The Secrets Realisation H14-1 is drawn from The Secrets,a series in which enlarged garden imagery becomes a dense field of blossom,foliage and color. The close cropping reduces ordinary depth cues,making the image oscillate between photographic detail and all-over abstraction. Its title adds a reflective,almost allegorical layer to the deliberately abundant surface. The stated technique is laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel. It measures approximately 120 × 93 cm. The high-resolution printed surface is mounted to a rigid aluminium composite panel,giving the image the physical presence of an object rather than a conventional sheet of paper. Saturated color and edge-to-edge detail reinforce the series’ balance between visual excess and tightly controlled production.

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The Secrets transforms a garden into an immersive field where photographic detail and painterly abundance are difficult to separate. The title Realisation encourages a symbolic reading without fixing the image to a single narrative. Within Hirst’s recent editions,the series extends his interest in beauty and transience through a more enveloping,landscape-based composition. Within Damien Hirst’s wider practice,The Secrets Realisation H14-1 is notable because it uses repetition and controlled variation to connect visual pleasure with impermanence.

About the artist

Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst is one of the UK's most influential contemporary artists. He studied at Goldsmiths College in London, where in 1988 he organized Freeze, an emblematic exhibition that launched the Young British Artists movement. This initiative attracted the attention of influential collectors, including Charles Saatchi, and propelled Hirst onto the art scene. His artistic approach revolves around the themes of life, death and mortality, with works such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (a shark preserved in formaldehyde). His work often marries science and art, exploring the beauty and fragility of human existence through provocative materials and striking installations.Hirst has exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Tate Modern (London) and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples). In 2008, he defied the art market by auctioning his work directly at Sotheby's, raising £111 million in two days, a record for a living artist.

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