1000 Windows
29 x 37.125 inches1000 Windows, 2013
overall: 29 x 37.125 inches
each: 14 1/2 × 12 3/8 inches
Edition of 1000
Each signed in felt-tip pen verso; titled 'One Thousand Windows', datedand numbered respectively, from the edition of 1000
Provenance
Tate Modern, London England
Additional Photos
Title, Signature, Date & Edition number verso
Gary Hume is one of the group of young British artists whose careers were launched by the seminal show Freeze, curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. The main focus of the work of artists in this exhibition was the appropriation of everyday objects and subjects.
GARY HUME DOORS & WINDOWS
Gary Hume is one of the group of young British artists whose careers were launched by the seminal show Freeze, curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. The main focus of the work of artists in this exhibition was the appropriation of everyday objects and subjects. Hume's painting, Mint Green Doors I-III 1988 now owned by the Saatchi Collection was included. Soon after this he stopping using canvas and in favor of painting on MDF board and Formica panels, creating obsessively smooth surfaces and developing the theme of doors and windows. These monochrome and two-color paintings are literal representations of double doors or multi-panned windows, made using household enamel high gloss paint. The paintings explore the difference between the painted and the real.
Hume has compared his shiny, painted surfaces to makeup applied to skin, stating 'what is the surface and what is the imagined surface? Where is the skin and where is the flesh? I find myself more and more interested in discovering where the hierarchies lie, what is above and what is below. How things meet.' from Brilliant: New Art from London, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1995, pp.42-45
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