“I
suppose I want people to think, mainly. In this instance, I wanted
people to think about the combination of science and religion,
basically. People tend to think of them as two very separate things,
one cold and clinical, the other emotional and loving and warm. I
wanted to leap over those boundaries and give you something that
looks clinical and cold but has all the religious, metaphysical
connotations too. It’s the perfect time now because the church is
messing up so badly”
“I’m
more interested in religion filling a hole for people. That’s how I
look at it now. There’s a hole there in people. In everybody. In
me. A hole that needs filling, and religion fills it for some people.
And art for others. I don’t think religion is the answer, but it
helps. I use art in a similar way to fill that hole. It’s just ways
of looking at the world optimistically rather than just as a brutal
swamp. Which it is. But, in order to live you have to make more out
of it than that. Religion helps, but it’s failed really.”
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
The works are made by placing thousands of different coloured butterflies stripped of their bodies in intricate geometric patterns into household paint on canvas.
ABOVE: Damien Hirst posing with Doorways to the kingdom of heaven
BELOW: Doorways to the kingdom of heaven Source: DamienHurst.com
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