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Damien Hirst & Invader — Beautiful Spinvaded Pizza Painting

Beautiful Spinvaded Pizza Painting

2025

The 'Beautiful Spinvaded Pizza Painting' is perhaps the most playfully subversive entry in the Hirst-Invader collaborative series, introducing the iconography of pizza — a universal symbol of pop culture, consumption, and democratic pleasure — into the rarefied space of contemporary fine art. The spin painting's circular form is an obvious and delightful nod to the pizza itself, with household gloss radiating outward in wedge-like slices of color that blur the line between Hirst's process-driven abstraction and a tongue-in-cheek figurative reference. Invader, whose pixel art has long referenced the low-resolution graphics of arcade games and early digital culture, finds a natural companion in pizza's status as a pop culture staple — a food immortalized in everything from video games to street murals. The use of household gloss rather than artist-grade paint reinforces the work's democratic spirit, suggesting that great art, like great pizza, need not be precious or exclusive. The piece ultimately celebrates joyful irreverence as a legitimate artistic statement, one that both artists have built their legacies upon.

Medium
Household gloss on canvas

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Damien Hirst & Invader, Beautiful Spinvaded Pizza Painting, 2025

The 'Beautiful Spinvaded Pizza Painting' is perhaps the most playfully subversive entry in the Hirst-Invader collaborative series, introducing the iconography of pizza — a universal symbol of pop culture, consumption, and democratic pleasure — into the rarefied space of contemporary fine art. The spin painting's circular form is an obvious and delightful nod to the pizza itself, with household gloss radiating outward in wedge-like slices of color that blur the line between Hirst's process-driven abstraction and a tongue-in-cheek figurative reference. Invader, whose pixel art has long referenced the low-resolution graphics of arcade games and early digital culture, finds a natural companion in pizza's status as a pop culture staple — a food immortalized in everything from video games to street murals. The use of household gloss rather than artist-grade paint reinforces the work's democratic spirit, suggesting that great art, like great pizza, need not be precious or exclusive. The piece ultimately celebrates joyful irreverence as a legitimate artistic statement, one that both artists have built their legacies upon.

Medium
Household gloss on canvas
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Street Art Fusion, Contemporary Subversion, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Household Gloss, Twenty-First Century, British Contemporary, Pop Culture, Whimsical Mood

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Alex Capecelatro, Sarah Greenspan, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Brittany Laques