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Suiko H10-4 from The Empresses
By Damien Hirst
Laminated giclee print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter.
100 x 100 cm.
Edition of 3310.
2022.
New as issued in the original packaging.
‘Suiko’, a composition which evokes life in many ways, is titled after the first recorded empress of Japan. Though legend says that several females had ruled before Suiko (554-628 CE), her rise to power after her brother Sushun was murdered in 592 CE marked a break with tradition of installing male rulers. Suiko is remembered for the Chinese and Korean influences she brought to the country, including the implementation of the Chinese calendar, the arrival of Chinese and Korean craftsmen, and, perhaps most notably, the establishment of Buddhism.
