The World's Largest Modern & Contemporary Prints & Editions Platform
Riot - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2017 - MyArtBroker

Riot
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

Price data unavailable

There aren't enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.

102 x 76cm, Edition of 150, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 150
Year: 2017
Size: H 102cm x W 76cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Track performance and compare this work against others in your collection.Find out how Buying or Selling works

Meaning & Analysis

Riot is part of Hirst’s Eat the Rich series. The series is composed of twelve prints, all of which use the format of pharmaceutical packaging for their designs. The names of the prints refer to the fictional medications that Hirst has created. The conventional packaging contrasts with the unusual product name, ‘Riot’. A theme runs through the Eat the Rich as each product name that Hirst creates carries connotations of force, violence and aggression. Other examples from the series include Attack and Clash.

Hirst has had a longstanding interest in medicine and its depiction in art. Whilst in his second year at Goldsmiths in 1988, Hirst began his Medicine Cabinets series, in which the artist constructed various cabinets filled with the empty packets of his grandmother’s medication. In Eat the Rich, Hirst returns to depicting medicine, this time in print form, as opposed to his previous installations.

  • Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

More from Damien Hirst