Hirst’s Collection at the Serpentine
News in today’s Independent that Damien HIrst has a new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery - showing more than 60 works from his private collection. The show, entitled In The Darkest Hour There May Be Light, features “a luminous coffin, a collage of topless models, coloured skulls and a series of Hoovers”.
Work by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol includes Bacon’s A Study for a Figure at the Base of a Crucifixion and even a few pieces by Banksy the graffiti artist.
Quoting Michael Joo, a New York artist who has four installations in the exhibition, Arifa Akbar says “it would give an insight into Hirst’s mind.”
Until 28 January 2007
Independent story here