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![Andy Warhol »Electric Chair« 1971 [Detail] Portfolio. Series of 10 screenprints on cardboard Each sheet 90.2 x 121.9 cm / 35.5 x 48 in. [H x W] Edition: 158/250 [Edition of 250 + 50 AP] © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York](//img.artrabbit.com/events/andy-warhol-damien-hirst/images/JLFZDTq9UP7I/622x460/Warhol-5555fa70e25b4.jpg)
Andy Warhol »Electric Chair« 1971 [Detail] Portfolio. Series of 10 screenprints on cardboard Each sheet 90.2 x 121.9 cm / 35.5 x 48 in. [H x W] Edition: 158/250 [Edition of 250 + 50 AP] © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York
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![Damien Hirst »The Stations of the Cross« 2005 [Detail] Series of 14 silkscreens on Somerset satin paper Each sheet 100 x 66.7 cm / 39.4 x 26.3 in. [H x W] Edition: 28/80 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2015](//img.artrabbit.com/events/andy-warhol-damien-hirst/images/hLCQfUTzv2Xb/378x460/T-55560d16b751d.jpg)
Damien Hirst »The Stations of the Cross« 2005 [Detail] Series of 14 silkscreens on Somerset satin paper Each sheet 100 x 66.7 cm / 39.4 x 26.3 in. [H x W] Edition: 28/80 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2015
![Andy Warhol »Electric Chair« 1971 [Detail] Portfolio. Series of 10 screenprints on cardboard Each sheet 90.2 x 121.9 cm / 35.5 x 48 in. [H x W] Edition: 158/250 [Edition of 250 + 50 AP] © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/andy-warhol-damien-hirst/images/RePqaMXUIyQP/1500x1108/Warhol-5555fa70e25b4.jpg)
![Damien Hirst »The Stations of the Cross« 2005 [Detail] Series of 14 silkscreens on Somerset satin paper Each sheet 100 x 66.7 cm / 39.4 x 26.3 in. [H x W] Edition: 28/80 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2015](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/andy-warhol-damien-hirst/images/1BKf6yI11020/1235x1500/T-55560d16b751d.jpg)
Exhibition
Andy Warhol - Damien Hirst
8 May 2015 – 31 Jul 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Taylorstraße 1
- Berlin
Berlin - 14195
- Germany
Travel Information
- U-Bhf. Oskar-Helene-Heim
Gallery Bastian’s second exhibition space presents a dialogue between two of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century: Andy Warhol, the protagonist of American »Pop Art«, and Damien Hirst, the initiator of the »Young British Artists«.
About
On display are Warhol’s ten-part silkscreen series »Electric Chair« (1971) as well as Hirst’s fourteen-part graphic cycle »The Stations of the Cross« (2005).
The connecting element between the two exhibited series is Warhol’s and Hirst’s preoccupation with the theme of death. In his graphic cycle Warhol repeatedly presents the viewer with the empty execution machine – yet he decidedly choses a glaring colouring which is normally associated with consumer culture. For Warhol »heaven and hell are just one breath away« [AW]. In this cycle, the electric chair becomes a metaphor for death itself.
Hirst’s graphic cycle deals with the traditional Stations of the Cross – quotations from the Gospels make reference to their origin. The clear emphasis on pharmaceuticals and their packaging embodies the healing promise of modern medicine. Hirst no longer perceives religion and science as opponents: religion appears as science and science appears as religion.
[Marianne Dobner]
