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"Acetic Anhydride" belongs to the series of 'Pharmaceutical Paintings' that Damien Hirst began in 1991. Hirst explains the motivation behind this painting:
"I often get asked about the spot paintings- 'I love your works but why do you do those stupid spots? They're not good paintings' or 'the paintings are great/better than your other works, but Richter already did it'. They have nothing to do with Richter or Poons or Bridget Riley or Albers or even Op. They're about the urge or the need to be a painter above and beyond the object of a painting. I've often said they are like sculptures of paintings.
"I started them as an endless series like a sculptural idea of a painter (myself). A scientific approach to painting in a similar way to the drug companies' scientific approach to life. Art doesn't purport to have all the answers; the drug companies do. Hence the title of the series, The Pharmaceutical Paintings, and the individual titles of the paintings themselves: Acetaldehyde (1991), Albumin Human Glycated (1992), Androstanolone (1993), Arabinitol (1994) etc.
".... I said before I wish I'd never said anything about The Pharmaceutical Paintings, and I still wish I hadn't. They are what they are, perfectly dumb paintings, which feel absolutely right" (In: G. Burn and D. Hirst, 'Damien Hirst I want to sepnd the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now', London 1997, p. 236).
"I often get asked about the spot paintings- 'I love your works but why do you do those stupid spots? They're not good paintings' or 'the paintings are great/better than your other works, but Richter already did it'. They have nothing to do with Richter or Poons or Bridget Riley or Albers or even Op. They're about the urge or the need to be a painter above and beyond the object of a painting. I've often said they are like sculptures of paintings.
"I started them as an endless series like a sculptural idea of a painter (myself). A scientific approach to painting in a similar way to the drug companies' scientific approach to life. Art doesn't purport to have all the answers; the drug companies do. Hence the title of the series, The Pharmaceutical Paintings, and the individual titles of the paintings themselves: Acetaldehyde (1991), Albumin Human Glycated (1992), Androstanolone (1993), Arabinitol (1994) etc.
".... I said before I wish I'd never said anything about The Pharmaceutical Paintings, and I still wish I hadn't. They are what they are, perfectly dumb paintings, which feel absolutely right" (In: G. Burn and D. Hirst, 'Damien Hirst I want to sepnd the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now', London 1997, p. 236).