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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Beautiful Hypnotic Ornate Mandala 2 Spin Painting

Beautiful Hypnotic Ornate Mandala 2 Spin Painting

2025

Beautiful Hypnotic Ornate Mandala 2 Spin Painting is arguably the most viscerally exciting work in the collection, merging Damien Hirst's iconic spin painting technique with Shepard Fairey's mastery of graphic design and spray paint to produce a work that is simultaneously meditative and explosive. Hirst's spin paintings — made by applying paint to a rotating canvas — are exercises in controlled chaos, surrendering compositional decision-making to centrifugal force, and here the addition of Fairey's spray paint layers introduces human intentionality back into that aleatory process, creating a productive tension between accident and design. The mandala, a sacred geometric form used across Buddhist and Hindu traditions as an aid to meditation and a symbol of the cosmos, lends the work a spiritual gravitas that recontextualises both Hirst's playful painterly process and Fairey's bold street aesthetic within a universal visual language of wholeness and order. Household gloss brings the democratic, non-precious quality that Hirst favours, while spray paint evokes the streets where Fairey built his reputation, grounding the transcendent mandala form in the material world of walls, cans, and concrete. The result is a hypnotic, kaleidoscopic object that invites prolonged contemplation, asking whether beauty born from chaos can still carry spiritual meaning in the context of contemporary art.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas

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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Beautiful Hypnotic Ornate Mandala 2 Spin Painting, 2025

Beautiful Hypnotic Ornate Mandala 2 Spin Painting is arguably the most viscerally exciting work in the collection, merging Damien Hirst's iconic spin painting technique with Shepard Fairey's mastery of graphic design and spray paint to produce a work that is simultaneously meditative and explosive. Hirst's spin paintings — made by applying paint to a rotating canvas — are exercises in controlled chaos, surrendering compositional decision-making to centrifugal force, and here the addition of Fairey's spray paint layers introduces human intentionality back into that aleatory process, creating a productive tension between accident and design. The mandala, a sacred geometric form used across Buddhist and Hindu traditions as an aid to meditation and a symbol of the cosmos, lends the work a spiritual gravitas that recontextualises both Hirst's playful painterly process and Fairey's bold street aesthetic within a universal visual language of wholeness and order. Household gloss brings the democratic, non-precious quality that Hirst favours, while spray paint evokes the streets where Fairey built his reputation, grounding the transcendent mandala form in the material world of walls, cans, and concrete. The result is a hypnotic, kaleidoscopic object that invites prolonged contemplation, asking whether beauty born from chaos can still carry spiritual meaning in the context of contemporary art.

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

Related themes

Geometric Forms, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Modern Era, British Artists, Meditative Mood, Contemporary Art, Vibrant Colors, Ornate Design, Abstract Patterns

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery