HENI NFT is pushing the boundaries of digital and physical art by developing pioneering NFT projects. Projects include the NFT drops of Damien Hirst such as The Currency which is a social experiment in value, a new type of art ownership using the proprietary NFT Deeds for The Empresses, and the artist’s first generative project called The Beautiful Paintings. 

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## HENI is delighted to present the physical prints for Great Expectations by  Damien Hirst.

Following the [collection of 10,000 NFTs](https://heni.com/nft/more-info/great-expectations) that Hirst released in 2021, the Great Expectations physical editions are Diasec-mounted Giclée prints on aluminium composite panel, measuring 80 x 80 cm each. The prints are hand-signed on the front by Damien Hirst. 
 
Holders of a Great Expectations NFT can purchase a print of the artwork featured on their NFT. The prints are priced at $2,500 (plus any applicable taxes). Each NFT can be used only once to purchase a physical print. The NFT will be burned in the process. Each of the editions in the series will be unique. 
 
**The purchase window for the Great Expectations prints is open from 9 November 2023 to 18 January 2024 at 17:00 GMT.**

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Released to holders of The Currency NFTs, the Great Expectations NFT collection contains 10,000 unique artworks made by Damien Hirst. At the centre of these artworks are grids of emoji-like pregnant women whose forms have been constructed from spots of various shapes, sizes and colours taken directly from The Currency artworks themselves. The collection references some of the most iconic imagery from Hirst’s monumental career. 
 
While the structure and basic forms are repeated across the series, each NFT is individualised by colour or unique attributes. The attributes are divided into seven categories, which include accessories, clothes, facial features, hair, headwear, occupation and background. Naturally, some attributes or combinations of attributes are rarer than others. 

Each of the Great Expectations NFTs is made unique through its combination of colours or attributes. Each NFT can be used only once to purchase a physical print, which means that each physical edition in the series will be unique. Each print will be numbered on the label and hand-signed by Damien Hirst on the front. 

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 ### How to purchase the Great Expectations physical print 
Please follow the steps below to purchase a physical print of Great Expectations. To purchase a print, you will need a Great Expectations NFT on the Palm network.  
 
If you have any questions, you can explore the [FAQs here](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/damien-hirst#great-expectations-prints). If you want to get in touch, please contact customer care or ask a moderator on [Discord](https://discord.gg/HENI). 
 
#### Choose your artwork 
- Go to the [My NFTs page](https://heni.com/nft/my-nfts) and select the ‘Physicals’ tab. Here you will find the artworks available to purchase as a physical print. Select the artwork you want to purchase and click on the ‘Purchase Now’ button.
- If you would like to purchase a Great Expectations print but don't have an NFT, you can explore this [FAQ article](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/how-do-i-purchase-a-great-expectations-print-if-i-dont-own-an-nft). 
- If your NFTs are not on the Palm network, you are able to use the [bridge](https://app.palm.io/bridge) to transfer the NFTs from Ethereum to Palm. 

#### Complete order details and payment 
- Follow the steps in the purchase flow and carefully fill out your contact information and payment details 
- Once you have confirmed your order details, you are asked to complete payment before moving on to the final step 

#### Burn NFT 
- Upon payment, you are asked to burn the NFT and complete your order. 
- Please follow the instructions on your MetaMask app and authorize the HENI website to access your token. No funds will be taken from your account. 
 
*Please note: this website will have all of the correct links for you to complete your transaction in a safe manner. Do not click on any other links than the ones shared by HENI.*

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Great Expectations unique physical prints hand signed by Damien Hirst, available exclusively to NFT holders until 18 January 2024, from HENI Editions.

Great Expectations Editions – Damien Hirst

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## HENI is excited to present the brand new HENI NFT website.

The new HENI NFT site features a My NFTs page to view all your HENI NFTs in one place, across Ethereum and Palm. Instead of having different websites for each collection, everything is available on the main HENI website now with an updated design, which will lead to a more consistent, unified and better user experience! Visitors can also find new content such as infographic NFT rarity PDFs and updated project overviews.

Ethereum now hosts around 95% of all HENI NFT trades and 98% of [The Currency](https://heni.com/nft/more-info/the-currency) trades. For this reason, we have decided not to move across the NFT marketplace to the new site. This will allow us to focus on exciting new projects and innovate the world of art collection and education.Trading on platforms such as [OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/thecurrency), [Blur](https://blur.io/collection/thecurrency) and [LooksRare](https://looksrare.org/collections/0xaaDc2D4261199ce24A4B0a57370c4FCf43BB60aa) is of course still possible. 

If you need any assistance on using the bridge to trade your NFTs, please check out our [FAQs](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/how-can-i-use-the-palm-nft-bridge) or [get in touch with us.](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/kb-tickets/new)

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Introducing the New HENI NFT Website

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## HENI presents the new HENI Merch site, featuring new and updated collections

HENI is thrilled to unveil the brand new and improved [HENI Merch site](https://heni.com/merch). A new and visually appealing interface for browsing and purchasing, aligned with the new HENI platforms. To make things even more convenient, we have merged our Merch website into [heni.com](https://heni.com/). Now, you can access our wide array of merchandise alongside our art related platforms, all in one place.

[**A Great Light Collection**](https://heni.com/merch?category=A%20Great%20Light)
<br>Launched in conjunction with Brian Clarke’s major exhibition ['A Great Light'](https://heni.com/blog/article/brian-clarke-a-great-light-exhibition) at Newport Street Gallery, you can now find the [A Great Light collection](https://heni.com/merch?category=A%20Great%20Light) on the HENI merch site. Browse through a variety of items, from hoodies and t-shirts to keyrings and posters.

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[**The Currency Collection**](https://heni.com/merch?category=The%20Currency)
<br>A new addition to The Currency collection, [The Currency Stainless Steel Smart Water Bottle](https://heni.com/merch/the-currency-stainless-steel-smart-water-bottle) is made of high-quality stainless steel with perfect thermal protection to keep your drink cold for 24 hours or hot for up to 12 hours.

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Discover HENI's revamped merch site. Explore Brian Clarke's exclusive range and the new stainless-steel smart bottle from The Currency collection.

Introducing the Improved HENI Merch site

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## HENI is delighted to announce the launch of our official online merchandise shop.

To celebrate the opening of *The Currency Exhibition* at Newport Street Gallery, HENI has debuted a new and exciting range of *The Currency*-inspired merchandise.  

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Until now, the merchandise collection was only available at the Newport Street Gallery gift shop. With the new website, anyone who can’t make it to the gallery in person will still have access to our range of custom-designed collectors' items. 

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HENI is delighted to announce the launch of its merchandise shop, featuring the official merch for Damien Hirst's 'The Currency'. 

Introducing the HENI Merchandise Shop

Colourful spots, animals frozen in time, glorious butterfly wings and a skull set with diamonds are just some icons of Damien Hirst’s boundary-redefining career. Internationally recognised for his irreverent approach to artmaking, blurring the lines between media and expanding their possibilities, Hirst has helped set contemporary art on a practically limitless course. Through a decisive interplay of technology, technique and material, Hirst’s artworks engage with his signature themes of love, death, religion, science, belief and beauty to create works that are both visually and conceptually compelling.

Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, grew up in Leeds and moved to London in 1984. While studying at Goldsmiths School of Art from 1986-89, Hirst invented two fundamental series: his ongoing ‘Spot Paintings’, made up of meticulously rendered spheres of random colours arranged in perfect grid systems; and his ‘Medicine Cabinets’, an early investigation into science, medicine and systems of belief and trust that resurfaces across his oeuvre.  

In 1992, Hirst unveiled arguably his most iconic work ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (1991), a four-metre-long tiger shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde, and inserted his ‘Natural History’ series into the public consciousness. These sculptures simultaneously confront viewers with their own mortality and the unavoidable fate of death.

Hirst’s enduring confrontations with death emerge again in his butterfly works. Since his 1991 exhibition ‘In and Out of Love’, he has continued to readapt the butterfly motif. Hirst produces awe-inspiring compositions using their wings, as in his ‘Kaleidoscope’ series began in 2001, a formula that has entered a new chapter in the HENI prints series ‘The Aspects’ (H6, 2019), ‘The Elements’ (H6, 2020) and ‘The Empresses’ (H10, 2022). In these collections, the technology and materiality of the prints advance the symbolic resonance of the butterfly, standing for the possibility of beauty in death. 

Since 1994, Hirst has produced his joyful ‘Spin Paintings’. These works are made with minimal artist intervention, the final product reliant only on colour choice and force of movement. These paintings inspired ‘Enter the Infinite’ (H1, 2016), 12 jacquard-woven tapestries that constitute further delegation of the artistic process to a machine. ‘The joy of colour’ and colour relationships are themes to which Hirst frequently returns, as in ‘Colour Charts’ (2012), ‘Colour Space’ (2016), ‘Veil Paintings’ (2017) and their eponymous print series. 

In 2017, Hirst revealed ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’, which include hundreds of sculptures and drawings apparently salvaged from a shipwreck. This project foregrounded Hirst’s interest in belief systems, questioning structures that attract trust and value. Hirst’s 2021 project ‘The Currency’ further explores this idea, asking collectors to choose between the traditional medium of painting and the contemporary NFT, forcing them to put faith in where they see value. 

From 2018-20, Hirst produced ‘Cherry Blossoms’. The monumental canvases, entirely covered in dense, bright colours, envelop the viewer in a vast landscape of blooming trees that traverses the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. From these works, Hirst made his ‘Fruitful & Forever’ (H8, 2020) and ‘The Virtues’ (H9, 2021) print series, playfully presenting macro and micro details of the paintings that bring their tactile impasto to the fore. 

Hirst’s name is synonymous with contemporary art, continually pushing the boundaries of traditional approaches to and conceptions of the artwork. Hirst’s prints, editions and multiples are a fundamental part of this practice. Though wide-ranging in nature, together these works are magnificent exercises in how technique, technology and materiality can be manipulated to enhance the discourse and reception of Hirst’s subjects. 

Damien Hirst

Colourful spots, animals frozen in time, glorious butterfly wings and a skull set with diamonds are just some icons of Damien Hirst’s boundary-redefining career. Internationally recognised for his irreverent approach to artmaking, blurring the lines between media and expanding their possibilities, Hirst has helped set contemporary art on a practically limitless course. Through a decisive interplay of technology, technique and material, Hirst’s artworks engage with his signature themes of love, death, religion, science, belief and beauty to create works that are both visually and conceptually compelling.

The Currency, launched in July 2021, is a collection of 10,000 NFTs which correspond with 10,000 original artworks by Damien Hirst. Collectors were given the choice to either keep the NFT or exchange it for the physical artwork.

Every choice made – to keep the NFT, or keep the painting – had consequences. Collectors that chose to claim a physical artwork had to burn their NFT to do so. Similarly, those who chose to keep their NFT did so knowing that the physical artwork would then be destroyed. The exchange period closed on 27 July 2022 resulting in just over half the collectors (5,149) deciding to keep the physical artwork, and 4,851 to keep the NFT.

The Currency

Great Expectations, the second NFT collection by Damien Hirst, contains 10,000 unique artworks made by Damien Hirst that were airdropped free of charge to owners of a The Currency NFT.

Following on from the artwork that he created for Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” album cover, at the center of these artworks are grids of emoji-like pregnant women whose forms have been constructed from spots of various shapes, sizes and colors taken directly from The Currency artworks themselves. The collection references some of the most iconic imagery from Hirst’s monumental career.

Great Expectations

The Beautiful Paintings is the revolutionary new artwork from Damien Hirst that blurs the boundaries between digital and physical art creation using generative and machine learning algorithms.

Marking the newest iteration of Hirst’s iconic Spin Paintings series, known for their energetic splashes of colour, The Beautiful Paintings gives collectors the opportunity to choose their own combination of colours, styles, shapes, sizes, and mediums to generate unique artworks and titles .

Collectors were given the option to generate the artwork either as a physical artwork, digital artwork (NFT), or both. The physical artworks are printed on canvas and are available in two shapes and four sizes. Each artwork in the series is unique and the physical artworks will be hand-signed with a paint pen on the front by Damien Hirst.

The Beautiful Paintings

MadC

Color Rhythms is a generative NFT collection by the internationally renowned graffiti artist MadC. Consisting of 1,000 unique NFTs, Color Rhythms innovatively combines a generative algorithm, machine learning and hand curation in order to push the boundaries of MadC’s expressive compositions.

A sophisticated generative algorithm was used to recreate MadC’s real-life interventions with her canvases, including the application of color, brushstrokes, paint spray, paint splashes and paint drips. One of the remarkable aspects of this drop is how closely these digital creations mirror the style of the physical works that MadC creates.

Color Rhythms

The Empresses by Damien Hirst is a series of five glorious prints depicting carefully composed images of butterflies, which are named after five exceptionally influential female rulers. The striking Empresses prints are constructed of beautiful images of red butterfly wings, which are intricately arranged with a filigree of red glitter to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects. 

Collectors were able to either purchase the physical prints directly, or to delay receipt of the print for up to 3 years by purchasing a “HENI Editions NFT Deed”. This new category of HENI NFT allows collectors to redeem their NFT for the physical artwork at a later date, and also to pass on their entitlement to the print through trading the NFT, thus giving a maximum of flexibility to collectors.

The Empresses

In his own words, French artist JR creates ‘infiltrating art’ and is driven by an ambition to bring art to as many people as possible. Hence, he creates epic installations all over the world, involving hundreds of thousands of people and blurring the line between artist, artwork, spectator and participant. 

Born in 1983, JR transitioned from graffiti art to photography and installation at the age of 17. After finding a camera on the Paris Metro, he began to document the street art he and his friends were creating, displaying the photographs on walls around the city and transforming the streets of Paris into what he termed ‘Sidewalk Galleries’. In the following years, JR travelled Europe to meet with other artists interested in street art, who inspired him to treat the walls and facades of cities as his canvas.

Even before exploring methods of optical illusion in his artwork, as his most recent projects do, the exact positioning and sites of his images were always carefully planned. For example, in one of his earliest series, ‘Portraits of a Generation’ (2005), JR took photographs of individuals involved in the riots occurring in Paris that year and pasted the images in the wealthier neighbourhoods, underscoring the lack of representation of these communities in the media. Over the next two decades, JR travelled extensively around the world, from Brazil to Cambodia, New York to Ukraine, creating site-specific installation projects intended to amplify lesser heard voices. 

In recent years, the participatory quality of JR’s practice has evolved into a complete blurring of the line between subject and spectator in his huge scale optical illusions realised as photographic installations. For example, in 2016 he created a photographic installation at the Louvre, for which he made the museum’s glass pyramid ‘disappear’ by pasting the structure in his now iconic black and white strips of paper. The effect was achieved through the artist’s masterful control of trompe l’oeil and anamorphosis.

JR has exercised these techniques across many projects, including huge photographic collages pasted at the foot of the Eiffel Tower or on the grounds of a Californian prison, as well as giant billboards erected around the pyramids of Egypt or at the US-Mexico border. The engagement with scale, optical illusion and visual manipulation exhibited in these projects has become a defining feature of the artist’s practice. 

JR has recently reproduced images of his inherently ephemeral artworks as physical prints or NFTs. In doing so, JR not only cements these temporary installations in history, but he also infuses into them a new dimension of audience engagement by allowing people from across the world to participate in his site specific, temporal projects. 

Characteristically, JR leaves the meaning of his creations ambiguous, explaining that it is reliant on the interpretation of the viewer-participant. JR has described his ambition as being to create the “largest art gallery in the world” by reaching as many viewers as possible, further realised by his recent engagement in printmaking, a medium intended for wider distribution and viewership. In this way, JR releases even more control to the viewer-participant, consistent with his unwavering belief that it is only through the audience that his artworks are given meaning.

In his own words, French artist JR creates ‘infiltrating art’ and is driven by an ambition to bring art to as many people as possible. Hence, he creates epic installations all over the world, involving hundreds of thousands of people and blurring the line between artist, artwork, spectator and participant. 

Greetings from Giza marks the first NFT collection by JR. For the first time, the enigmatic artist is able to make ephemeral art persist through the use of blockchain. Greetings from Giza is a multi-layered collection that blurs the lines between the public and digital space, inviting the audience to not just own, but become part of the artwork.

The project was launched with the installation of a large-scale public work in Giza, Egypt. In line with the years since this historic monument was constructed in 2570 BC, the artwork has been divided into 4,591 Greetings from Giza NFTs, each showing a unique detail of the work made up of black and white shapes.

Greetings From Giza

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The Currency, the first NFT collection by Damien Hirst, explores the boundaries of art and currency—when art changes and becomes a currency, and when currency becomes art.

The Beautiful Paintings is a revolutionary new artwork from Damien Hirst that blurs the boundaries between digital and physical art creation.


Great Expectations, the second NFT collection by Damien Hirst, features grids of emoji-like pregnant women whose forms have been constructed from spots taken directly from The Currency artworks.

The striking Empresses prints are constructed of beautiful images of red butterfly wings, which are intricately arranged with a filigree of red glitter to produce visually intoxicating kaleidoscope-like effects.

Greetings from Giza is the first NFT collection by JR. For the first time, the enigmatic artist is able to make ephemeral art persist through the use of blockchain.

Color Rhythms is a generative NFT collection by the internationally renowned graffiti artist MadC which innovatively combines a generative algorithm, machine learning and hand curation.

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