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Damien Hirst & Invader — Cool Cefditoren Pivoxil

Cool Cefditoren Pivoxil

2025

Cool Cefditoren Pivoxil brings together Damien Hirst and Invader in a work whose very title — lifted from a pharmaceutical antibiotic — immediately roots it in Hirst's longstanding preoccupation with medicine, mortality, and the commodification of health. The medium, combining household gloss, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas, is a deliberate hybrid: the gloss and acrylic belong to Hirst's precise, laboratory-clean aesthetic, while the spray paint imports Invader's street origins, creating a layered surface that is part clinic, part city wall. Invader's pixelated tile logic likely manifests here translated into paint, his 8-bit visual grammar fusing with Hirst's spot-painting geometry to produce something that reads simultaneously as data and decoration. The word 'Cool' in the title introduces irony — pharmaceutical names are clinical and alienating, yet 'cool' renders them desirable, mimicking how drug branding seduces consumers — a critique both artists are well-positioned to make given their navigation of art-world commercialism. As a collaboration, this piece is among the collection's most conceptually layered, merging pop culture's pixelated nostalgia with pharmaceutical anxiety into a single, visually arresting object.

Medium
Household gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions

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Damien Hirst & Invader, Cool Cefditoren Pivoxil, 2025

Cool Cefditoren Pivoxil brings together Damien Hirst and Invader in a work whose very title — lifted from a pharmaceutical antibiotic — immediately roots it in Hirst's longstanding preoccupation with medicine, mortality, and the commodification of health. The medium, combining household gloss, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas, is a deliberate hybrid: the gloss and acrylic belong to Hirst's precise, laboratory-clean aesthetic, while the spray paint imports Invader's street origins, creating a layered surface that is part clinic, part city wall. Invader's pixelated tile logic likely manifests here translated into paint, his 8-bit visual grammar fusing with Hirst's spot-painting geometry to produce something that reads simultaneously as data and decoration. The word 'Cool' in the title introduces irony — pharmaceutical names are clinical and alienating, yet 'cool' renders them desirable, mimicking how drug branding seduces consumers — a critique both artists are well-positioned to make given their navigation of art-world commercialism. As a collaboration, this piece is among the collection's most conceptually layered, merging pop culture's pixelated nostalgia with pharmaceutical anxiety into a single, visually arresting object.

Medium
Household gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions
137.2 x 137.2 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Experimental Approach, Street Art Fusion, Multi-technique, Layered Composition, Urban Aesthetic, Twenty-First Century, British Contemporary, Mixed Media Painting, Contemporary Collaboration

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Collected by

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