The Cartier Foundation for contemporary art is currently exhibiting "Cherry Blossoms", the Damien Hirst's exceptional new series of paintings.
Cherry Blossoms is the first exhibition solo by Damien Hirst in France. For this exhibition, the Fondation Cartier printed 6 different exhibition posters.
"The Cherry Blossoms are about beauty, life and death. They [the paintings] are excessive - almost vulgar. Like Jackson Pollock abyss by love. They are ornamental but painted from life. They deal with the desire, of how we perceive the things around us and what we do with them, but they also show the incredible ephemeral beauty of a blossoming tree in a cloudless sky. It was fun to work on these canvases, to lose myself entirely in color and material in the workshop. The Cherry Blossoms are flashy, messy and fragile, and with them I moved away from minimalism and enthusiastically returned to the spontaneity of the pictorial gesture."
- Damien Hirst -
Cherry Blossoms
Poster of the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Paris
