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Damien Hirst & Invader — Pixel Colour Chart

Pixel Colour Chart

2025

Pixel Colour Chart is a deeply self-aware dialogue between two artists whose practices are built on systematic repetition and the grid, making their collaboration feel almost inevitable in retrospect. Hirst's iconic spot paintings — methodical arrangements of colored circles that question authorship, seriality, and the commodification of art — find a natural counterpart in Invader's 8-bit pixel logic, where images are constructed from discrete units of color in a rigid matrix. On canvas in mixed media, the work collapses the distinction between the analog and the digital, suggesting that Hirst's hand-painted dots and Invader's ceramic tile mosaics are, at their core, the same gesture: reducing the visual world to its smallest reproducible unit. The title's reference to a colour chart evokes both the scientific and the commercial, nodding to Hirst's long engagement with the aesthetics of pharmaceutical and laboratory catalogues. The result is a meditation on how meaning emerges from repetition, and how two very different cultural vocabularies — contemporary fine art and retro gaming — can occupy the same visual grammar.

Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions

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Damien Hirst & Invader, Pixel Colour Chart, 2025

Pixel Colour Chart is a deeply self-aware dialogue between two artists whose practices are built on systematic repetition and the grid, making their collaboration feel almost inevitable in retrospect. Hirst's iconic spot paintings — methodical arrangements of colored circles that question authorship, seriality, and the commodification of art — find a natural counterpart in Invader's 8-bit pixel logic, where images are constructed from discrete units of color in a rigid matrix. On canvas in mixed media, the work collapses the distinction between the analog and the digital, suggesting that Hirst's hand-painted dots and Invader's ceramic tile mosaics are, at their core, the same gesture: reducing the visual world to its smallest reproducible unit. The title's reference to a colour chart evokes both the scientific and the commercial, nodding to Hirst's long engagement with the aesthetics of pharmaceutical and laboratory catalogues. The result is a meditation on how meaning emerges from repetition, and how two very different cultural vocabularies — contemporary fine art and retro gaming — can occupy the same visual grammar.

Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions
152.4 x 72 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Digital Culture, Systematic, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, 2020s, Color Systems, Collaborative Practice, Modern, British Contemporary, Pixel Art

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