Damien Hirst: Cathedrals Built on Sand Derek Bickerton and mummies—and Fly Paintings

and mummies—and Fly Paintings

it’s totem-like and male

and miscellaneous projects

in which the artist layers dabs of color and flecks of gold leaf over monochrome canvases

Damien Hirst: Cathedrals Built on Sand Derek Bickerton and mummies—and Fly PaintingsThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst: Cathedrals Built on Sand at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris. It documents the artists sculptural series Pill Cabinets, for which he filled wall mounted cabinets with arrangements of tabletssome real, some fabricated from metal, resin, or plaster. Intermingling art and science in Hirsts familiar style, Pill Cabinets confronts societys faith in drugs as a panacea and unites the