Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst’s ‘Enter the Infinite – Revelation' is a transfixing, vibrant and entirely joyful tapestry produced after a ‘Spin Painting’ from 2008. The original’s aesthetic of randomness is accompanied in the present tapestry by mathematical intervention, precisely dividing, repeating and reflecting the action to create a visually arresting work.  

Hirst’s tapestry takes the eye on an uneasy journey in and out of the work’s centre. Exploding from its centre is a vertical ‘X’ shape with bulbous forms emerging from its horizontal axis. Rippling in blues, reds, yellows and greens, the eye attempts to follow the patterns of colours but cannot contain the shifting perspectives of inward and outward motion, constituting a reflection on the limits and functions of the human eye.  

This effect is further emphasised through its medium, as the tapestry is produced using a small selection of booming colours which the eye optically blends as it navigates its way through the composition’s intense motion. Such action is recollective of the spinning technology used to produce the original painting and indeed the mechanised process of jacquard-weaving. As a result, ‘Enter the Infinite – Revelation’ is apparently caught in the dynamic motion of the ‘Spin Painting’, expanded and emphasised.  

Enter the Infinite - Revelation

Enter the Infinite

Damien Hirst’s ‘Enter the Infinite – Revelation' is a transfixing, vibrant and entirely joyful tapestry produced after a ‘Spin Painting’ from 2008. The original’s aesthetic of randomness is accompanied in the present tapestry by mathematical intervention, precisely dividing, repeating and reflecting the action to create a visually arresting work.  