Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will present a solo exhibition of work by American artist Jeff Koons from May 18 to October 16, 2016.Titled “Now” and curated by Hirst himself, the exhibition will feature more than 30 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from Hirst’s collection, spanning 35 years of Koons’s career from 1979 to 2014.The exhibition will include works from Koons’s series “Inflatables,” “The New,” “Equilibrium,” “Luxury” and “Degradation,” “Made in Heaven,” “Popeye,” and “Hulk Elvis,” amongst others.“Now” is the first major UK show to be devoted to the artist since “Jeff Koons: Popeye Series” at the Serpentine Gallery in 2009.Hirst was in his second year at Goldsmiths college when first saw Koons’s work, which he has been collecting for 12 years, in the 1987–1988 group exhibition “New York Art Now” at the Saatchi Gallery.Newport Street Gallery opened in Vauxhall, South London, in October 2015. Spanning five buildings, the gallery presents solo or group exhibitions of work drawn from Damien Hirst’s extensive art collection,On the opening of the gallery, Hirst said “I’ve always loved art and art deserves to be shown in great spaces, so I’ve always dreamed of having my own gallery where I can exhibit work by the artists I love.“I believe art should be experienced by as many people as possible and I’ve felt guilty owning work that is stored away in boxes where no one can see it, so having a space where I can put on shows from the collection is a dream come true.”
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