Colour Space H5

Infused with the child-like joy reminiscent of his ‘Spin Paintings’ series, begun in 1994, Damien Hirst’s 2016 ‘Colour Space’ paintings rid themselves of the rigid structure of his ‘Spot Paintings’ (begun in 1986), constituting a new phase in Hirst’s endless endeavour to “[pin] down the joy of colour”. In 2018 in collaboration with HENI Editions, Hirst translated the logic of these 261 paintings into the eponymous ‘Colour Space’ (H5) series of eight spot prints which reverberate with seemingly boundless energy.