Gallery owner Nadene Milne, of Arrowtown, with limited
edition prints by Damien Hirst. Photo by James Beech.
Limited edition works by controversial British artist
Damien Hirst are in demand more than a week before they are due
to be shown in an Arrowtown art gallery.
Nadene Milne Gallery launches "The Beauty and Brutality of
Fact: Damien Hirst and Max Gimblett" on October 19.
Gallery owner Nadene Milne said yesterday the South Island
debut of two series of 15 prints by Hirst provided a rare
opportunity for Central Otago audiences to view artwork by
one of the most famous contemporary artists of this era.
Works by Gimblett would include a group of his finest gold
and silver quatrefoils and limited edition works, Ms Milne
said.
Gimblett is a New York-based New Zealand artist whose career
spans more than 45 years. Ms Milne said he was recognised as
a key Asia Pacific artist, demonstrated by his inclusion in
The Third Mind 2009 Guggenheim show, which traced how
artists working in the west have adapted and transformed
eastern ideas and artistic forms into their practices.
The gallery will screen the documentary Damien Hirst,
Thoughts, Work, Life next door in Dorothy Brown's Cinema
on October 19 at 7pm as a prelude to the exhibition launch at
8pm.
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