Gary Hume: Looking and Seeing

Barakat Contemporary is delighted to hold the first solo exhibition in Korea by British artist Gary Hume from 5th June to 4th August 2019. Hume is considered one of the most important painters among the YBAs who studied at Goldsmiths, University of London in the late 1980s.

Hume is well known for the brilliant colors and sleek surfaces of his works, which are produced in high-gloss paint on aluminum panels. Over time, his works have grown to include a wide variety of subjects ranging from his mother, children, friends, and celebrities to natures such as flowers and birds. By cropping, enlarging, and simplifying the images of his subjects, he creates entirely new artistic languages. Hume values artwork as something with its own autonomy, separate from the subject and from the artist’s own emotional attachments and ideas. Distancing himself from the subject and observing it objectively, he records the resulting artistic forms in his paintings.