From Moco’s website:
“From January 23rd, 2026, Moco Museum London welcomes a new and exceptional artwork into its collection. For the next five months only, visitors can experience Vandalised Spot Painting (Banlofen) (2024), a rare collaboration between artists Banksy and Damien Hirst.
Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings are among the most recognisable series in contemporary art. Built from precise systems, perfect circles, controlled colour, and repetition, they reflect an obsession with structure, balance, and clinical order. Over time, these spots became closely linked to pharmaceutical naming and scientific aesthetics, turning colour into something methodical and almost medical.
Banksy’s intervention interrupts that system.
Emerging from one of Hirst’s immaculate dots is a rat, one of Banksy‘s most enduring symbols. Associated with the overlooked and the marginal, the rat breaks the illusion of perfection. It introduces humour, rebellion, and critique into a space defined by control. The act is not destruction but dialogue, street art meeting institutional art on the same surface.
Hirst once described the collaboration simply: “I gave Banksy some spot paintings to mess about with and he painted over some of them.” The result is layered, provocative, and quietly confrontational.
Rather than choosing sides, the work holds both positions in tension, allowing control and interruption to exist without resolution.“
Source: https://www.mocomuseum.com/news/london/banksy-and-hirst-collaboration-london/
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