格里‧休姆

格里.休姆1962年出生于英国肯特郡,曾就读利物浦理工学院及伦敦金匠学院,1996年入选「特纳奖」决赛,同年参加圣保罗双年展;翌年获「哲尔伍德绘画奖」;1999年代表英国在威尼斯双年展英国馆举行个展。现于伦敦及纽约州北部生活及工作。

休姆的作品以采用普通光漆,平涂出鲜艳色块见称。1990年代初期,休姆借着绘画医院大门的简略形象,创作了系列作品《门》,因而崭露头角。其后更将创作题材进一步扩展至肖像、裸体和花园等。休姆拣选时装模特儿凯蒂.莫丝肖像为作品主题,反映了他对流行文化的兴趣。1999年休姆在威尼斯双年展中展出系列作品《水绘画》,以交织重叠的线条勾勒出各式裸体形象。2006年,他的展览「岩画」在伦敦白立方画廊举行,当中展出的作品以不同种类的石块如云石和铅等,拼贴在画面上并纯以手工雕刻。

休姆作品富有平面设计特色,适合于版画制作,尤其丝网版画。所以除绘画外,休姆也创作了不少网印作品,包括十幅以无光铝片制作的系列作品《姊妹团队》 (2009) 。

其主要个展包括「庭园工作」(马太.麦克斯画廊,纽约,2009);「古铜色的美国」(白立方画廊,伦敦,2007);凯斯特纳画廊,汉诺威,2004;布雷根茨艺术博物馆,奥地利,2004;爱尔兰现代艺术馆,都柏林,2003;凯夏基金会,巴塞罗那,2000;白教堂画廊,伦敦,1999;苏格兰国家现代美术馆,爱丁堡,1999。主要联展包括「灵性艺术:UBS艺术藏品」(森美术馆,东京,2008);「余震:当代英国艺术1990-2006」(北京首都博物馆,广州广东美术馆,2006-7);「感觉:萨奇英国青年艺术家藏品」展(伦敦、柏林、纽约,1997-9);「闪耀!伦敦新艺术」(明尼阿坡里斯,休斯顿,1995-6)。1988年,休姆与马特.科里索及莎拉.卢卡斯等年青艺术家共同参予展览「凝」(1988)。

Gary Hume

Gary Hume was born in Kent in 1962 and studied at Liverpool Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College in London. In 1996 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and his work was shown at the Bienal de São Paulo. He was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting the following year and in 1999 represented Britain with a solo exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Hume lives and works in London and upstate New York, USA.

Hume is best known for his paintings of bright, flat colour combinations, which he produces using household gloss paint. He came to prominence in the early 1990s with a series of works known as Door paintings, simplified images of hospital doors in highly reflective gloss paint. He then expanded his subject matter to include other motifs such as the portrait, the nude, and the garden. In Hume’s portraits in particular, we see his interests in popular culture by his choice of subjects such as fashion model Kate Moss. For the 1999 Venice Biennale he produced a series of large scale overlapping line drawings of nudes entitled Water Paintings. More recently, for his exhibition Cave Paintings at White Cube in London in 2006, Hume incorporated lead as well as different types of stone such as marble into his work, carving them by hand and presenting them together as collages.

The graphic quality of Hume’s work lends itself to printmaking, in particular screenprints. Hume has produced a number of screenprints alongside his paintings, including the series The Sister Troop (2009), a group of ten prints on brushed aluminium.

Selected solo exhibitions include Yard Work, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2009; American Tan, White Cube, London, 2007; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2004; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2003; Fundação la Caixa, Barcelona, 2000; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1999. Selected group exhibitions include Art Is For The Spirit: From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2008; Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 2006-7; Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, London, Berlin and subsequently New York, 1997-9; and Brilliant! New Art from London at Minneapolis, and Houston, 1995-6. Hume was also one of the young artists to exhibit in the seminal exhibition Freeze in 1988 along with other artists such as Mat Collishaw and Sarah Lucas.