Last night’s opening of the “Damien Hirst the Complete Spot Paintings 1986 -2011″ exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills had me seeing spots too!! When you first walk in the gallery the two story 21ft spot painting on canvas hits you with the total “wow” factor. Throughout the gallery you see big ones, little ones, rectangular ones, square ones, some with big spots, some with little spots and all in different color schemes.
We chatted with Parker Jones from Gagosian, who was very knowledgeable about Hirst, and he mentioned that in each painting no two dots of the same color are painted next to each other. This proposed a challenge. But sure enough, after staring at about 3 large paintings to find two red dots next to one another we could not seem to find an exact color match! Perhaps THIS was the “Spot challenge” everyone has been talking about?
So,what exactly IS the Complete Spot Challenge? Basically, Hirst has dared collectors to join him in his global conquest. With “The Complete Spot Challenge,” he has offered a prize, Willy Wonka style, to those who visit all 11 galleries worldwide—New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong. Confirm that you’ve visited all venues and he’ll sign a spot print dedicated to you personally. The average cost for this sort of quest… $13,000! Not a bad value considering the major press if you would get if you actually won and the grand prize itself.
ArtSpot would like to add to the “Complete Spot Challenge” spectacle. For those of you who visit all 11 Gagosian locations and spot a Damien Hirst Spot painting with your iPhone and upload it to ArtSpot, we will send you a grand prize of a new iPhone 4S preloaded with our favorite art apps including ArtSpot! (not affiliated with Damien Hirst and Gagosian Gallery) Download Artspot FREE available in iTune’s app store on January 16th (this Monday..whoo hoo!)
Are you going to take the complete ArtSpot challenge?
- SD
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Super excited to take the ARTSPOT CHALLENGE. New app looks awesome!
-L
Yes!
Just wondering how many iphones are you giving away as your grand prize? If more than one person takes pics of Hirst’s pictures at each gagosian and uploads them, will each of them get an iphone? If there is only one, how do you decide? By whoever completes this first or by raffle? Are there other prizes? Thanks.
Hi Tan!
We are only giving away one iPhone 4S to the first lucky person who completes the ArtSpot Challenge and uploads one Damien Hirst spot painting from each Gagosian location to ArtSpot. Each image uploaded to ArtSpot has a time and date log so we can determine who completed the challenge first. We don’t have any other prizes for this ArtSpot Challenge, but we are working on our next contest scheduled for the end of February….So stay tuned!
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Hi ArtSpot! I finished the ArtSpot Challenge today and was curious if you could contact me about it. I can’t find any contact info on the site and was hoping you could email me. Thanks!
Alex
Congratulations on completing the ArtSpot Challenge! We’ll email you with details on how to claim your prize. If you have questions feel free to email winning@artspot.it Well done and thank you for playing!!
-the ArtSpot team
Wow that’s so great!!!! Many thanks to you guys for adding to the challenge! It was so much fun and I love the App. Looking forward to your email!
Alex