Requiem II details all the previously unseen skull paintings from the Requiem exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine, in April 2009. Featuring over 40 works painted between 2006 and 2008, Hirst uses paint to convey the darker, philosophical attributes of death. Emerging from the midnight darkness, his Requiem skull paintings speak of a remembrance of corporeality and the transportation from body into soul. Using the skull as representative of this transition, Hirst appeals to our universal nature, his art merging sublime romanticism with life's cold scientific reality: together we drive towards death.
- ISBN10 1906967121
- ISBN13 9781906967123
- Publish Date 15 October 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Other Criteria
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 130
- Language English