Damien Hirst's new exhibition Nothing Matters

Nineteen new paintings by Damien Hirst go on display at the White Cube gallery in London today. This, How Did We Lose Our Way, is one of seven triptychs in the exhibition; "His viscerated meat-men and skeletons hang about, waiting for a death that's already happened: they just haven't noticed yet," writes Adrian Searle in today's Guardian. "There is almost nothing but death in Hirst's new show." Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/guardian.co.uk

Damien Hirst's Bad News (2009). Photograph: guardian.co.uk

The triptych Nothing Matters / The Empty Chair "gives us butcher's knices (recalling the jangling cutlery in certain Picassos, painted in the hungry years of the war)," writes Searle. 'There are also worryingly vacant chairs: are they meant for us?' Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/guardian.co.uk

The triptych Insomnia includes 'a glass of wine that could have come from a later painting by Patrick Caulfield', writes Searle, who says that the triptych formats, gold frames and glazed surfaces of Hirst's new paintings 'once again recall Francis Bacon'. Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/guardian.co.uk

The crows appear again in Hirst's A Change of Fortune. 'I feel like I’ve arrived somewhere ... In a completely different way, I feel I’ve got the tools to navigate somewhere. All that expression – doubts, fears, everything – can come out in this arena," Hirst told the late Gordon Burn in an interview published to accompany the exhibition Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/guardian.co.uk

Damien Hirst The Crow (2009). Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Damien Hirst's Portrait of a Man I (2009). Photograph: guardian.co.uk