Damien Hirst. The Bilotti Paintings: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: January 21-March 5, 2006
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965): Luke, 2004, from The Bilotti Paintings.
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas with mixed media
139 1/2 by 106 3/4 x 4 inches (353.5 by 271 by 10 cm).
Palm Beach resident Carlo Bilotti recently commissioned these monumental canvases from Damien Hirst, the world-renowned British artist. They will be exhibited at the Norton for just seven weeks prior to their permanent installation in Rome.
These awesome evocations of the Four Evangelists set the artifacts of writing — pens, phrases, manuscripts — within the cosmic context of infinite space and colorful nebulae. Butterflies symbolize the universal evangelism of those who wrote the Gospels and carried their message to all mankind: "Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." ...
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