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Gagosian will present Damien Hirst鈥檚 latest series, 鈥淭he Veil Paintings鈥� as the 2018 Oscars show, a much-anticipated annual fixture in the Los Angeles cultural calendar. Hirst鈥檚 last exhibition in Los Angeles was 鈥淭he Complete Spot Paintings鈥� in 2012.

Following 鈥淭reasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable,鈥� his highly ambitious sculpture exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice last year, Hirst was drawn towards the immediacy of painting and a return to the studio. This new series takes the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embraces color and gestural painting on a large scale. Referencing both Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, 鈥淭he Veil Paintings鈥� layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color.

Inspired partly by the Pointillist innovations of Georges Seurat and the post-Impressionist paintings of Pierre Bonnard, Hirst continues his examination of color and its effect on the eye in 鈥淭he Veil Paintings.鈥� While in the Spot Paintings and Medicine Cabinet series, his use of color was contained within the formality of the grid and the minimalist pharmaceutical packaging, here it is given free reign, with joyous results.

鈥淭he Veil Paintings鈥� coincides with 鈥淐olour Space,鈥� a solo exhibition of new paintings from 2016 and sculptures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England (March 25鈥揓uly 15, 2018).