GARY HUME
Kunsthaus-Bregenz.at
January 24 thru March 21, 2004

fig.: Gary Hume
After Vermeer, 1995
Gloss paint on aluminium panel
198 x 122 cm
Collection Margharita Morabito, Rome
Photo: Stephen White

In the eighties, Gary Hume (born in 1962 in Kent, England) became a star of the Young British Art movement virtually overnight with his “Doors” series. The series comprises some 50 works to date. The Kunsthaus Bregenz shows a representative selection, including “Door,” 1988, one of the earliest works in the series, “Dream,” 1991, “Girl Boy, Boy Girl,” 1991, and “All He Knows,” 2000. Format and formal structure of these largely several-part paintings assembled in a row and done on MDF or canvas are based on real doors to be found in public institutions, such as hospitals, schools, etc. With these rows of door images and their sparse depiction, Gary Hume makes reference to the heroes of the color-field, hard-edge, and shaped-canvas movements of the sixties and seventies in America. next>>>