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| Gary Hume, Magnolia Door Eleven, 1989 |
Around 1987/8 Gary Hume made (as I thought then, and do so now) some perfect paintings: the 'Doors'. The large monochrome paintings were modelled on a pair of swing doors with porthole windows in St Bartholomew's Hospital. As recounted by Thomas Lawson in Gary Hume: Door Paintings (2008) Modern Art Oxford: The canvas was divided in half vertically, with a circle and a rectangle floating in each half... The graphic elements are drawn, then filled with colour, layer upon layer of high gloss house paint in those neutral off-whites designed to bring a sense of elegance to domestic interiors... As Hume says: "I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking." (p6)
Rather brilliantly visitors enter the Tate's exhibition through a pair of giant, pink, Hume doors.
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| Gary Hume, How To Paint A Door, 2013 (?) - Tate Britain |
Hume was, perhaps, trapped for a while by the success of the doors: however, he has since forged a highly distinctive style of glossy paintings which hover between representation and abstraction. The Tate exhibition shows a selection of his work from the last twenty years.
Read reviews by Waldemar Januszczak, Laura Cumming and Richard Dorment.
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| Gary Hume, Tony Blackburn, 1994 |
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| Gary Hume, Blackbird, 1988 |
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| Gary Hume, The Moon, 2009 |
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| Gary Hume, The Cradle, 2011 |
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| Gary Hume, Anxiety and the Horse. Angela Merkel, 2011 |
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| Gary Hume, Red Barn Door, 2009 |
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