Exhibitions: Young British Artists I
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Saatchi Collection,
London,
United Kingdom
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
1 March 1992
Group ExhibitionIn 1992, Saatchi included Hirst in the first of his six-part series of ‘YBA’ exhibitions held at Saatchi Gallery, Boundary Road, North London. The show, in which ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (1991) was unveiled for the first time, featured a survey of some of Hirst’s most important works to date.
‘The Lovers (The Committed Lovers) (The Spontaneous Lovers) (The Detached Lovers) (The Compromising Lovers)’ (1991). Courtesy of Jay Jopling/White Cube © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2012
Alongside 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' were ‘A Thousand Years’ (1990), the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ ‘Holidays’ and ‘No Feelings’ (1989), and three early formaldehyde works: ‘Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding (Right)’ (1991); ‘Stimulants (and the Way They Affect the Mind and Body)’ (1991); and ‘The Lovers (The Committed Lovers) (The Spontaneous Lovers) (The Detached Lovers) (The Compromising Lovers)’ (1991).
