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Derek Hirst

1, 1973

Derek Hirst

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50 Years

50 Years

LONDON Cork Street

6 Feb – 29 Feb 2020

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Derek Hirst by Robert Heller

Derek Hirst

Derek Hirst by Robert Heller

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(1930 - 2006)

A cursory glance at the diverse body of work produced during Derek Hirst's long and prolific career could lead to the assessment that he was an artist bent on defiant capriciousness. His paintings are uniform only in their insistence on dramatic shifts of emphasis and advocacy of a radically transforming visual language. At different stages in an involved artistic mier, Hirst dedicated attention to an exceptionally varied subject matter, whilst deploying media ranging from oils, dyes and acrylic to less conventional materials such as sand, plaster, rope, and dried reeds. The style of his work, too, permutated from precisely calculated, hard-edged colour to a luminous blending of surfaces and tones.

From this inventory of difference, it is easy to conclude that Hirst invested considerable impetus in a refusal to be 'pinned down'. But the reality is quite the contrary. Being-in-the-world and producing art that contained "every aspect of human passion and mirror[ed] consciously, or unconsciously, as a seismograph might measure the slightest earthly tremor, the events of the world" was Hirst's ceaseless endeavour. His essential anchoring to place meant that, beyond perfunctory appearances, Hirst's preoccupations and passions remained constant, his work bound together by an unvarying purpose. It is this dedication to evoking or (re)presenting place - whether Catalonian earthy incandescence, the balanced formal beauty of the Zen gardens of Kyoto or the coal-stained, snow-smudged domestic landscapes of his native Doncaster - that provides remarkable consistency in an apparently inconsistent oeuvre.

Selected Work

Catalan Landscape:I (Palafrugell)

Derek Hirst

Catalan Landscape:I (Palafrugell), 1957

Oil on panel

Black Armchair

Derek Hirst

Black Armchair, 1967

Oil on canvas

Romanesque

Derek Hirst

Romanesque, 1969

Oil on board

Alhambra

Derek Hirst

Alhambra, 1971

Cryla on relief panel

Cherokee Paqueno

Derek Hirst

Cherokee Paqueno, 1973

Cryla on relief panel

Summer

Derek Hirst

Summer, 1975

Cryla on canvas

For Hokusai V

Derek Hirst

For Hokusai V, 1985

Watercolour on paper

Red Sea No.I

Derek Hirst

Red Sea No.I, 1990

Cryla and collage on panel

Arco: End of an Era No.I

Derek Hirst

Arco: End of an Era No.I, 1998

Mixed media on board

Study for El Rocio No.I

Derek Hirst

Study for El Rocio No.I, 1999

Mixed media on board

Study for El Rocio No.II

Derek Hirst

Study for El Rocio No.II, 1999

Mixed media on board

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