No Lost Love, Blue Paintings by Damien Hirst, Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection hosts an exbition of paintings by Damien Hirst. As announced, they are blue. The word is here taken in its both senses, as a colour and as a mood. The palette is fading from deep navy blues to creamy pastels. The recurring skullhead evokes a dark state of mind, death and despair. These still lives show a beautiful melancholy. The space is defined by geometric lines : a table, walls, it reminds me of Francis Bacon’s cage composition. But in this case, the spatiality is almost abstract. Damien Hirst’s famous dots appear sometimes, to create depth. They act like a word that the artist declines according to his subject. Untill january 24th.

http://www.wallacecollection.org/collections/exhibition/77