H10-2 Nūr Jahān
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *H10-2 Nūr Jahān* fuses scientific exactitude with devotional splendour, extending his celebrated “spot” language into a more ornate, culturally charged register. Meticulously articulated chromatic units are arranged with near-clinical precision, yet the overall effect reads as a contemporary mosaic—simultaneously optical, architectural, and intensely luminous. The title invokes Nūr Jahān, the influential Mughal empress, positioning the work within a wider conversation about power, patronage, and the aesthetics of empire. Hirst’s technique—serial repetition, calibrated colour relationships, and immaculate surface finish—creates a tension between system and seduction, reflecting on how meaning is constructed through pattern, display, and value. A compelling contemporary artwork that bridges pop, minimalism, and global art histories.
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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