H10-1 Wu Zetian
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *H10-1 Wu Zetian* forms part of the artist’s ongoing investigation into image-making through systems—an approach that merges conceptual rigour with seductive surface. Built through a meticulous, serial method and saturated chromatic orchestration, the work reads as both contemporary abstraction and a coded portrait, its title invoking Wu Zetian, the singular female emperor of China. Hirst leverages repetition, calibrated patterning, and optical intensity to explore authority, legacy, and the construction of historical myth. The tension between controlled technique and visceral colour aligns the piece with his broader practice: art as spectacle, archive, and critique. At once culturally resonant and materially compelling, *H10-1 Wu Zetian* speaks to power’s iconography in the global imagination.
About the Artist
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
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