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Gary Hume: This Way / That Way: Paintings from the 90s,

13 Sep - 26 Oct 2024
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Gary Hume: This Way / That Way: Paintings from the 90s

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Overview
Gary Hume After Petrus Christus, 1995 Gloss paint on panel 38.5 × 28.5 cm; 15 ¼ × 11 ¼ inches
Gary Hume
After Petrus Christus, 1995
Gloss paint on panel
38.5 × 28.5 cm; 15 ¼ × 11 ¼ inches
In 1999 Gary Hume was selected by the British Council to represent Britain at the 48th Venice Biennale. Twenty-five years on, and to mark this occasion, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert are presenting some of his most important early works dating from 1993 through to 1999. 
 
The year 1993 marked a radical shift in Hume's creative direction. He moved on from his celebrated 'door' paintings to focus on a braoder scope of subjects including head, bodies, flowers, and other objects drawn from popular culture and daily life. Most of the paintings in this show began with a photograph, a 'found' image, traced and projected onto monumental aluminium supports and subsequently filled with high-gloss household paint. Hume favoured the brand Dulux for his tins of ready-made commercial paint: 'it's fluid, it sets, it's standard, it's recognisable... When you make a painting out of it, the material becomes beautiful. It transforms itself from a mundane material into a beautiful material'.
 
This Way / That Way points to the instability inherent in Hume’s paintings from this time. The pools of pure colour are starkly delineated but the compositions seem to melt as our eye shuttles from one point to another across the image, making and unmaking form. Applying thick coats of paint, the surfaces appear embossed, and the broad planes of colour press against one another as they reflect light: 'They’re apparent in the world; they’re apparent with light; they’re apparent with movement; they’re in constant flux'.
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Selected Works
  • After Petrus Christus, 1995 Gloss paint on panel 38.5 × 28.5 cm; 15 ¼ × 11 ¼ inches
    After Petrus Christus, 1995
    Gloss paint on panel
    38.5 × 28.5 cm; 15 ¼ × 11 ¼ inches
  • Flying, 1995 Gloss paint on aluminium 198 × 150 cm; 78 × 59 inches
    Flying, 1995
    Gloss paint on aluminium
    198 × 150 cm; 78 × 59 inches
  • Madonna, 1993 Gloss paint on panel 208 × 140 cm; 82 × 55 ¼ inches
    Madonna, 1993
    Gloss paint on panel
    208 × 140 cm; 82 × 55 ¼ inches
  • Manly, 1994 Gloss paint on aluminium 216 × 183 cm; 85 × 72 inches Signed and dated "Gary Hume 1994" on the reverse
    Manly, 1994
    Gloss paint on aluminium
    216 × 183 cm; 85 × 72 inches
    Signed and dated "Gary Hume 1994" on the reverse
Video
Installation View
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