Bald Spots

Bald Spots
man enjoying a painting by Damien Hirst

Gerard Boersma
acrylic on panel
±31" x 17" or 79 x 43 cm
2024

The idea behind spot paintings by Damien Hirst is simple; the paintings feature monochromatic canvases that feature orderly rows of perfectly rounded, glossy spots painted in a range of different bright colors.

To Hirst the spots represent a variety of emotions and or states. For instance, red signifies love, black means death, white means purity, green means jealousy, blue means the blues, and so forth.

But Hirst has also said that if you look closely at one of these paintings a strange thing happens. Due the lack of repeated colours there is no harmony. We are used to picking out chords of the same colour and balancing them with different chords of other colours to create meaning. This can’t happen here.

So in every painting there is subliminal sense of unease. Yet the colours project so much joy it’s hard to feel it, but it’s there. The horror underlying everything. The horror that can overwhelm everything at any moment.

Bald Spots is an original, 100% handmade painting and comes with a hand signed Certificate of Authenticity. The painting is signed on the front and back.

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Please feel free to contact me anytime if you have any questions. I would be happy to answer all of your inquiries personally.

kind regards, Gerard Boersma

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