The exhibition includes more than 300 tables, from the first dot painted by Hirst that year 1986, even his recent works and they bear strange names, such as "Cocaine Hydrochloride".
He himself has declared: “Imagine a universe of dots. Every time I create a painting I cut out a square piece of this universe. But the dots are reborn in the part I cut. They are all connected to each other".
Hirst, one of the most influential artists of our time, has made 1.500 overall spot paintings, while now a team of his assistants is working on a million-dot project that will take nine years to complete.
The projects are of various dimensions. They start at half a dot (2,4×1,2 cm.), while others are of enormous dimensions. They are presented simultaneously in eleven galleries around the world and come from collections and 20 different countries of the world.
The edition "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" will be released alongside the exhibition, which is a complete reference to all the dotted works created by Hirst in the corresponding period.
The exhibition "Damien Hirst: Dots, the complete collection, 1986-2011» will precede the first major retrospective of Hertz's work, which will open at Tate Modern in April 2012.
The central exhibit will be "For the Love of God", a human skull made of platinum and diamonds.
The complete spot paintings exhibition lasts until 10 March and in Athens it is hosted at the Bogosian Gallery, Merlin 3, Kolonaki.






