Vicious
Twelve-colour silkscreen print on 410 gsm Somerset Tub-Sized paper, 2010. Produced by the artist at Coriander Studios, London. Edition of 250, signed and numbered by the artist.
Inspired by the Lou Reed song 'Vicious' Hume was especially intrigued by the opening lyric 'you hit me with a flower'. He overlaid a dark silhouette, derived from an athletic statue of Mussolini, on a background of vibrant flowers, creating an attractive and decorative image from the idea of violent beauty.
Born in Tenterden, Kent, in 1962, Gary Hume studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and first achieved critical acclaim in the early 1990s for his series Doors, life-sized paintings of institutional doors. His subject matter then broadened to nudes, portraits, gardens, animals, and pop culture images. Notable exhibitions include his large-scale overlapping line drawings of nudes for his series Water Paintings shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale, and his 2006 solo show Cave Paintings at White Cube, which featured marble tableaux of collaged stones set together like tectonic plates.
In 1996, Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon. He was later awarded Great Britain's 1997 Jerwood Painting Prize. Hume was elected a Royal Academician in 2001. He has studios in London and New York State.
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