Wayne Coyne has art by the gallons, soon it will be on display in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City's new convention center will soon be home to a new art display as the City Council approved an agreement on Tuesday to house a piece from the collection of The Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne. 

The work titled, "Beautiful Mystical Exploding Sun Clouds Taste Metallic Gift Painting," was created in 2010 by Coyne and artist Damien Hirst.

The spin painting will be moved out of storage, reassembled and mounted at the city's expense of $58,600 in the coming weeks, with the hope to complete the transition before Jan. 13, Coyne's birthday. 

The creation of the piece came during an afternoon when Coyne, and his band and crew, spent time in Hirst's art hangar throwing paint and creating their own art.

"We're literally throwing whole gallons of paint over the edge of it and onto the canvas," Coyne said. "He let us all make our own spin art, and everyone started to take ownership of what was going on."

After the work was done, the problem of housing the massive 18-by-18 foot canvas became clear.

"That doesn't sound big on the colossal scale of 20-story buildings or whatever, but when you think about it there's not a room that we could find that we could put it in," Coyne said. "For a little while we had it hanging on the ceiling, but no one noticed it on the ceiling and that kind of took away its power."

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However, the selected site on the south end of the Oklahoma City Convention Center's third floor allows ample space for the collaborative piece. 

Hirst first began experimenting with spin paintings in 1994, using a "spin machine" which resulted in spontaneous works that have elongated names beginning with "beautiful" and ending with "painting."

Hirst described the painting style of the featured work as, “childish … in the positive sense of the word” and that the movement of the work "sort of implies life.”

"That's the spirit, it's easy to forget the human element of it is supposed to be having fun, not look at me I'm creating something," Coyne said. 

Kasum Contemporary Fine Art, an Oklahoma City company, will be responsible for bringing life back to the work, as they are contracted to relocate the painting from its current home in storage, stretch out the canvas over the course of several sessions and secure the work to the convention center's wall. 

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"This is one we've never done before," said Robbie Kienzle, Oklahoma City Arts & Cultural Affairs Liaison and Program Planner. "Typically you see works on loan at a museum, and so now that we have several facilities under the MAPS 3 program that will be viewed by people from all over the world, one of our local artists, Wayne Coyne, saw an opportunity,"

On Friday, the canvas' transition will begin and the possession of the painting will be handed to the city, which has a 10-year agreement to display the work, which can be renewed if the involved parties so choose.