113. GARY HUME
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Pecking Bird
2013 Gloss paint on aluminium (1345 x 877.2 cm) |
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London Fields
2011 Gloss paint on aluminium (188 x 132 cm) |
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Four Coloured Doors II
1990 (213.4 x 589.3 cm) gloss household paint on four canvases |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1962, Tenterden, Kent UK
Nowadays:
Lives and
works in London and New York
Studies:
Goldsmiths
College BA in 1988.
His work was included in both Freeze, an exhibition organised
by Damien Hirst in 1988, and East Country Yard, a warehouse exhibition
organised by Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas in 1990
Themes and
style:
Hume's
work is strongly identified with the YBA (Saatchi) artists who came to
prominence in the early 1990s.
Hume has become
known for depicting everyday subjects using high-gloss industrial paints.His
earliest notable works are his "door paintings", life-size
representations of hospital doors.
Hume abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings
in household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used appropriated
images, including pictures of celebrities
and animals.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, mostly with gloss over aluminium and sculpture
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include Tate Britain, London (2013);
Leeds Art Gallery, UK, touring England and Scotland (2012); Pinchuk Art Centre,
Kiev (2012); Modern Art Oxford, UK (2008); Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2004);
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2004); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003);
Fundação la Caixa, Barcelona (2000); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh (1999); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999); and São Paulo
Biennial (1996).
Group exhibitions include ‘Here, There and Somewhere in
Between’, The Royal Academy at Hatfield House, London (2013); ‘Encounter: The
Royal Academy Exhibition in Asia/Middle East’, Lasalle College of the Arts,
Singapore and Katara Cultural Village Foundation, Doha, Qatar (2012–13); ‘Art
of the Garden’, Tate Britain, London (2004); ‘The Flower as Image’, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2004); and ‘Painting on the Move’, Kunsthalle
Basel, Switzerland (2002).
Representative
Galleries:
White Cube
Matthew Marks
Saatchi
In
his own words:
"People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a
minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the
history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can
use from wherever and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no
point me making anything that looks like anyone else's. There is no point in a
painting like that existing."
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