Gary Hume

Berlin

Sprüth Magers currently presents 2 – an exhibition of new work by Gary Hume. For the artist’s second solo show in Berlin, the gallery will showcase an intimate series of never-seen-before works on paper, completed by the addition of gloss paint upon the glass of the frame. These multi-layered compositions will be shown alongside three recent paintings on aluminium.

A member of the celebrated group of ‚Young British Artists‘ who emerged from London’s Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms and an innovative use of colour. Renowned for his large-scale paintings which use high gloss paint to create planes of industrial colour, Gary Hume’s principal thematic concerns are color and light and formal ambiguity, while his subject matter ranges from friends, family and celebrities, to motifs drawn from nature and childhood. Recognisable images, sometimes sourced from magazines or snapshots and often of a personal, sentimental nature are schematized, abbreviated and silhouetted almost to the point of abstraction so that the original source material is rarely traceable within the final work.

Sprüth Magers

September 8th – October 20th, 2012
Oranienburger Straße 18
10178 Berlin
Germany

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