Gary Hume "Anxiety and the Horse"

Matthew Marks Gallery 523 W 24th St.

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Matthew Marks announces Gary Hume: Anxiety and the Horse, an exhibition of new paintings at his gallery at 523 West 24th Street.

The exhibition consists of a series of seven brightly colored abstract paintings made in Hume’s signature enamel on aluminum panels. Painted last year in his studio in upstate New York, Hume recently spoke about these works:

“I painted them as history paintings, the killing of Osama Bin Laden. That moment, that one second, in American history. One is of Obama. Another is of Angela Merkel; another one of George Bush, but they don’t look like them at all; another one is of a ‘Z’ that looks like a bit of a barn door. One day I’m in the studio looking at them thinking, you’re absolutely kidding me. This just looks like a bunch of balloons going across a field. When I was painting them I was thinking of Rembrandt and Franz Hals, and the paintings have got nothing in them of Rembrandt or Hals. I’d finished with the painting of the horse. I’m looking at the seven paintings thinking I like them but they’re all rubbish, because I’ve set out to make this vast history painting suite and it just looks like anxiety, and a horse. Anxiety and the horse. That’s exactly what they are. That’s all right. Then the paintings could live.”

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Schedule

from May 05, 2012 to June 23, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Gary Hume

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