Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall By arranging forms according to

By arranging forms according to mathematical sequences

Giacometti and Klein

Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984

ephemeral sketches

and oilcans—acquire multiple levels of reference and association

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall By arranging forms according toThis book was published on the occasion of Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 19862011, a single exhibition held simultaneously at eleven Gagosian gallery locations worldwide that brought together more than three hundred of Hirsts Spot paintings. Beginning with the first Spot painting created in 1986, Hirst established the essential characteristics of what was to become his well known series: hand painted colored circles arranged in a grid