GARY HUME RA (Royal Academician) (b. 1962, Kent, UK),

'Cultural Tie (Orchid)', 2000

LIMITED EDITION Artists' Necktie

This beautiful silk and cotton tie is embroidery SIGNED 'Gary Hume' on the back. Limited edition of 300. Numbered '099' on accompanying certificate. Manufactured by Ratti S.p.A., Italy. Published for the benefit of UNICEF by Cultural Ties. The tie measures 4" at its widest point. BRAND NEW tie and CoA. NO BOX.

A GREAT & ORIGINAL GIFT ITEM!!!

'[I did this design] because the orchid is a rare and collectable flower and these ties are rare and collectable a well. Hopefully the tie will be as beautiful as the orchid. Also because orchids have a sense of obscenity about them, and beauty, as I want the tie to have.'

-- Gary Hume

Cultural Ties was an exciting and unique fusion of art and fashion. This imaginative global project was the brain child of London art dealer Kapil Jariwala: the brief was for seventy-seven leading artists from around the world to design neck tie mock-ups which were translated into textile format by Como, Italy's Ratti silk factory. A limited edition, only 300 of each tie, were produced and sold worldwide via selected retail outlets, gallery shops and the internet. The project, in association with UNICEF, was supported by Gavin Aldred, owner of the Westzonegalleryspace, where the artwork for the project was exhibited, and Westzone Publishing Ltd.

"Art and fashion have come together for Cultural Ties, a project that aims to raise $1m (about pounds 700,000) for Unicef's clean-water campaign. Artists such as the Chapman Brothers, Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois have each come up with a unique design for a necktie, and these have been produced in a limited-edition of 300 by Versace's tie-maker."

-- Independent, The (London), November 12, 2000

Gary Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at numerous museums, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Tate Britain in London, and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium. He represented Britain at the São Paulo Biennial in 1996 and the Venice Biennale in 1999.

Hume is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright palette, reduced imagery and flat areas of seductive color. While Hume's paintings have always emphasised their luscious surfaces and simplified forms, many are infused with a melancholic beauty.

Hume first received critical acclaim with a body of work known as the 'Door' paintings. These minimal and abstract works, with their high gloss paint and insistent reflective surfaces, developed in the early 1990s into a broader set of motifs, such as the nude, the portrait, the garden, as well as a pictorial idiom drawn from childhood, with images of polar bears, snowmen, rabbits, owls and close-up faces. His subject matter broadened yet more through the mid 1990s to incorporate images from popular culture, making portraits of celebrity figures such as Tony Blackburn, Kate Moss and Patsy Kensit. For the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1999), he produced the 'Water Paintings', large-scale works of multiple, overlapping line drawings of nudes punctuated by flat areas of colour. 'Cave Paintings', the title of his most recent show at White Cube, London, UK, featured seven marble tableaux composed of a variety of different stones set against each other in collaged sections that appear like tectonic plates. These are held together by a lead tracery that provides the edge to the expanses of colour, traced by the natural faults and veins inherent in the stone itself. These monolithic compositions are hand-carved and richly decadent, combining visual motifs from the natural world with imagery suggestive of human birth and fundamental emotions.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023
'Gary Hume RA', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

2020
'Gary Hume RA: Archipelago', Sprüth Magers, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Destroyed School Paintings', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

2019
'Gary Hume RA: Destroyed School Paintings', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY'Gary Hume RA: Carvings', New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK'Gary Hume RA: Looking and Seeing', Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea'Gary Hume RA', Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018
'Gary Hume RA', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

2017
'Gary Hume RA: Mum', Sprüth Magers, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Prints Pictures', Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2016
'Gary Hume: Front of a Snowman', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
'Seeing Round Corners' (group exhibition), Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2013
'Gary Hume: The Wonky Wheel', Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume', Tate Britain, London, UK

2012
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
'Gary Hume: 2', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Jerwood Gallery Hastings, UK
'Gary Hume: Anxiety and the Horse', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK 
'Gary Hume: Beauty', Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
'Gary Hume: Paradise Paintings and the Indifferent Owl', White Cube, London, UK

2011
'Seduction: The Allure of Flowers' (group exhibition), Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO

2010
'Gary Hume: Bird in a Fishtank', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
'Gary Hume: New Work', New Art Centre, Salisbury Wiltshire, UK

2009
'Earth: Art of a Changing World' (group exhibition), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
'Figures and Portraits' (group exhibition), Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, NY
'Gary Hume: Yardwork', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume', Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

2008
'Gary Hume: Door Paintings', Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
'Gary Hume: Baby Birds and Things That Are Left Behind', Galleria Lorcan O’ Neill, Rome, Italy 

2007
'Gary Hume: American Tan', White Cube, London, UK
'Gary Hume: Angels, Flowers and Icons', Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, UK 

2006
'Gary Hume: Cave Paintings', White Cube, London, UK

2005
'Gary Hume: Carnival', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY 

2004
'Gary Hume: Carnival', Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
'Gary Hume: The Bird Has A Yellow Beak', Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

 

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