PinchukArtCentre presents the first solo exhibition by the British artist Gary Hume in Eastern Europe. The show entitled Beauty includes more than 60 paintings, drawings and two sculptures.
Gary Hume’s painting seduces often by being beautiful. Starting his artistic practice with his famous “door paintings”, life-size representations of hospital doors, which he made from 1980s until 1993, later researching themes like a human body, portrait, nature, birds, flowers, etc. With high-gloss household paint on aluminium sheets he creates cool and slick fields of colour defining the surface. In general Hume’s practice is characterised by this unique chose of material combined with the strategy of starting his painting from existing images which through a lengthy process of abstraction are rarely traceable within the final work.
Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “Gary Hume is a painter who reflects Beauty in the most sensitive way, in colouring and shaping human beings and nature. His exhibition is a wonderful view into a new world.”
The show offers a complex view of Gary Hume as an artist caught up in the tension between beauty and concept. The show combines some essential older works with recent work groups such as Rainbow, Anxiety and the Horse and several newly created paintings and sculptures such as the series Bikini, never shown in public before, as well as other drawings and paintings.
Gary Hume. Fragment of a Rainbow 3/7 (Seven parts); Falling, 1995
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Falling, 1995; Ermine, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Ermine, 2011; The Lido, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. The Lido, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. American Tan XXV, 2006-2007
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. American Tan IV, 2006-2007
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. American Tan XI, 2006-2007
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Body, 2008
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. American Tan III, 2006-2007
painted bronze, sheet metal, wooden plinth
Gary Hume. American Tan III, 2006-2007; American Tan IV, 2006-2007
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume. Fragment of Rainbow 3/7, 2011; A Small Disappointment, 2003
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. It’s a Boy, 2008; The Couple (diptych), 2004
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Between the Horns of a Dilemma; The Couple (diptych), 2004
Gary Hume. It’s a Boy, 2008
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. The Couple (diptych), 2004
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. The Whole, 2003
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume. Big Bird, 2010; Bird Sculpture, 2011
Gary Hume. Spike, 2006
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Fragment of Rainbow 3/7, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume. Anxiety and the Horse. Z, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Anxiety and the Horse. Angela Merkel, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Anxiety and the Horse. Yes We Can, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume. Anxiety and the Horse. The Horse, 2011
gloss paint on aluminium
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Gary Hume, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
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