DAMIEN HIRST (Bristol, United Kingdom, 1965)."Heart Spin Painting" .2006.Mixed media on cardboard.Signed and sealed on the back.Measurements: 39 x 41'5 cm (heart); 46 x 47 cm. (Frame).The most prominent of the Young British Artists group, Damien Hirst has dominated the art scene in England since the early 1990s. After a troubled childhood, Hirst studied Art and Design at Leeds University, later studying Fine Art at the University of London. As a student, Hirst worked part-time in a mortuary, an experience that later influenced his choice of subject matter and materials. After a period marked by serious problems with alcohol and drugs, Hirst turned his life around in 2002, following the death of his friend Joe Strummer, former lead singer of The Clash. Since then, he donated much of his money and devoted much of his time to the Strummerville Charitable Foundation, dedicated to helping young musicians.Death is the central theme of his work, so his work has always been surrounded by great controversy. He is best known for his Natural History series, in which dead animals are preserved, sometimes dissected, in formaldehyde. He is also known for his "spin paintings", such as the one we now present, made on a rotating circular surface, and his "spot paintings", which consist of rows of randomly colored circles.Damien Hirst has works in the MoMA in New York, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Palazzo Gras in Venice, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C. and the Neu Galerie in Graz (Austria), among other important public and private collections.