Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings Albert Oehlen Tansey constructs visual allegories about

Tansey constructs visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception

as well a Polaroid of the inspiration for the work

The catalogue contains color plates of the works interspersed with illustrated essays by art historian Richard Shiff

along with a handwritten caption by Pigozzi

this catalogue documents Richard Avedon’s 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings Albert Oehlen Tansey constructs visual allegories aboutThis book was published on the occasion of Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings, the first exhibition of the series in the United States at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Evolving from the iconic Spot paintings, the Colour Space paintings revisit the free and spontaneous nature of Hirsts first two Spot paintings from 1986, exactly thirty years later. The series adheres to some of the formal rules established for the Spot paintings: no