Gary Hume
This Is Not a Prize #7 has been awarded to Gary Hume (Tenderden – Kent, 1962).
The artist has been selected by the Mutina team, including its CEO Massimo Orsini and Mutina for Art’s curator Sarah Cosulich, for his experimental confrontation with the surface of the canvas and his coherent investigation into the limitations posed by painting.
By using high-gloss household enamel paints, often on aluminium panels, Hume creates images that shift from the abstract to the figurative encompassing a variety of subjects as sources. Memories as well as found materials inspire his paintings in which shiny and pop looking colours join into fluid and unexpected compositions.
Concepts such as beauty, presence and absence, joy and nostalgia emerge in Hume’s fluid forms, bidimensional in their essence yet opening deeper dimensions. In his work the subjective gaze and gesture of the artist is put into contact with the worlds of industrial production, design and minimalist practice.
Concepts such as beauty, presence and absence, joy and nostalgia emerge in Hume’s fluid forms, bidimensional in their essence yet opening deeper dimensions. In his work the subjective gaze and gesture of the artist is put into contact with the worlds of industrial production, design and minimalist practice.
