06/09/2025
BUTTERFLIES, BOMBS, BIRDS — DAMIEN HIRST, ROBERT LONGO, LUCIAN FREUD:
Of Hirst’s Butterflies, critics say they’re visual metaphors for fleeting life and the romance of death; Hirst said, Butterflies are ephemeral in life and eternal in art. One of the few creatures that looks as beautiful in life as in death.
Unlike the flower like explosion of a nuclear bomb, in Robert Longo’s, Study of Grable, from Lust of the Eyes, 2003, immortalizing in charcoal humanities most final act. Longo dances with spiritual themes- Drawn from a biblical phrase (1 John 2:16), and celebrity worship as in Betty Grable.
Dead Bird on a Bamboo Table, 1944, Lucian Freud (grandson to Sigmond) is blunt if not matter of fact. He loved all things animal and particularly birds, keeping them as pets and creating art of them. His students pondered if Freud was more animal than man?
The Bardo is a concept from Tibetan philosophy—a space of transition, reflection, and transformation. Our exhibition explores the dialogue between the natural world, humanity, spirituality, and the creative world.
Mother Nature in the Bardo is on view now at our Hamptons gallery, 245 county road 39, Southampton, NY, open Thursday through Sunday 11am - 7pm, through the fall 2025