Death Becomes Him

Tate Modern presents the first major Damien Hirst exhibition in the UK. This retrospective includes the artist's key works from the past 20 years, showcasing major career highlights. The exhibition will run from April 4 to September 9, 2012. Frankly speaking, I only liked his Thousand Years, 1990, which was produced soon after he left Goldsmiths College of Art. It has been wisely said by Lucian Freud to Hirst "I think you started with the final act, my dear". Indeed it would have been a perfect requiem.

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A Thousand Years, 1990

Black Sheep, 2007

Live butterflies sit in a bowl of fruit in an installation called In and Out of Love

Sinner, 1988

Damien Hirst

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Mother and Child Divided 2007

Damien Hirst and The Doorways to the Kingdom of Heaven

Crematorium - a giant ashtray

A butterfly lands on the head of a gallery assistant in a display room entitled In and Out of Love (White Paintings and Live Butterflies)

Mother and Child Divided, exhibition copy 2007 (1993 original in collection of Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo)