Spot Paintings for the Ninety-Nine Percent
Imcompletable Damien Hirst
by Terry Talty
Feb. 14, 2012
![Incompletable Spot Paintings, Tin Shop, Breckenridge](http://www.unsafeart.com/art_tourist/artassets/SpotsTin.jpg)
Unlike Damien Hirst’s work being shown at 11 Gagosian Galleries around the world, the virtual spot paintings are available to anyone with a modern Internet browser – one that supports HTML5. To see all these spot iterations, viewers don’t need a jet-set bank account. No need to get on a plane, just on the Internet.
Limitless Idea Project presents the Incompletable Spot Paintings, online at www.unsafeArt.com/Damien-Hirst-Style. Interact with 11 galleries – a gallery for each arrangement of colored spots – and their inexhaustible random color combinations.
A new painting appears each time the screen is refreshed, and so viewers can easily see as many, or more, combinations of spots than Hirst painted.
Colored circles may seem like a simple subject, but Hirst spent the past 25 years painting them. And hundreds of them are being shown in multiple exhibitions this year.