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Invader — InvadHirst
Invader

InvadHirst

2025

InvadHirst is a masterful act of homage and synthesis, with Invader translating Hirst's iconic spot painting vocabulary into his own signature mosaic tile medium, effectively converting one artist's mark into another's material language. Executed in ceramic tiles on aluminium, the work merges the precision and permanence of Invader's urban installations with the systematic color arrangements that have defined Hirst's spot paintings since the late 1980s. The title itself is a portmanteau that collapses both artistic identities into a single hybrid entity, suggesting that the act of collaboration is not merely additive but genuinely transformative. Invader's choice of aluminium as a substrate reinforces the work's urban, architectural sensibility, grounding Hirst's gallery-born abstraction in the physical world of walls and streets. The result is a playful yet conceptually rigorous dialogue between two artists who both interrogate systems, repetition, and the nature of artistic identity.

Medium
Ceramic tiles on aluminium
Dimensions

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Invader, InvadHirst, 2025

InvadHirst is a masterful act of homage and synthesis, with Invader translating Hirst's iconic spot painting vocabulary into his own signature mosaic tile medium, effectively converting one artist's mark into another's material language. Executed in ceramic tiles on aluminium, the work merges the precision and permanence of Invader's urban installations with the systematic color arrangements that have defined Hirst's spot paintings since the late 1980s. The title itself is a portmanteau that collapses both artistic identities into a single hybrid entity, suggesting that the act of collaboration is not merely additive but genuinely transformative. Invader's choice of aluminium as a substrate reinforces the work's urban, architectural sensibility, grounding Hirst's gallery-born abstraction in the physical world of walls and streets. The result is a playful yet conceptually rigorous dialogue between two artists who both interrogate systems, repetition, and the nature of artistic identity.

Medium
Ceramic tiles on aluminium
Dimensions
111.8 x 144.4 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Pixel Style, Street Art, Ceramic Tiles, Mixed Media, Mosaic Art, Modern Art, Digital Aesthetic, Colorful Palette, Playful Mood, Contemporary

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery