Damien Hirst

<p class=ql-align-justify> The survey began in April 1988 as interviews with artists jewellers fashion designers and furniture restorers based at Old Loom House in Whitechapel launching a quarterly review <em>Cv Journal of Art and Crafts</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> Cv Journal was published to 1992 and the collection of interviews and features provided the foundation of the Cv/Visual Arts Research archive and subsequent  publications. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> Cv/VAR series 146 reviews the work of Damien Hirst (b.Bristol 1965) presented in a retrospective exhibition spanning twenty years held at Tate Modern April to September 2012. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> It explores the development of his art from the controversial animal vitrines and beautiful butterfly  composites to an extensive series of spot paintings where the artist engaged in a complex invigilation of coded systems that govern daily existence. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> With contributions by Marina Vaizey and James Cahill it encounters a rarely exhibited work <em>One Thousand Years Mother and Child Crematorium Pharmacy </em>and <em>For</em> <em>The Love of God </em>the diamond studded skull.</p><p> </p>