Exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube announces ‘The Indifferent Owl’, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard galleries. A painting by Gary Hume is [...]

New Work by Richard Phillips for His Third Exhibition at White Cube Hoxton Square

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents ‘Most Wanted’, an exhibition of new work by Richard Phillips(on view until Mar 5 2011), his third with the gallery. Phillips’ strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality. He translates these images into drawings before executing large-scale oil paintings through a traditional process. He thus examines the iconic nature of pictures, which the media and art world use [...]

White Cube Looks at the Pivotal Role of Drawing in Current Practice

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action. Looking at the pivotal role of drawing in current practice, the exhibition features over 200 works on paper by some of the most significant artists working today. The German term ‘Kupferstichkabinett’ describes the special collection of prints and drawings within a museum, ‘kabinett’ originally deriving from the small space within a castle where personal collections were kept by the wealthy and aristocratic. These regal compilations of art on paper [...]

New Body of Work by British Artist Marc Quinn at White Cube

LONDON.- The White Cube Hoxton Square presents a new body of work by British artist Marc Quinn. Entitled ‘Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas’, the exhibition brings together new sculptures executed in marble, bronze and silver, depicting people who have undergone extreme levels of plastic surgery and transformation including hormone therapy, tattoos, piercing, skin bleaching, hair dying as well as implants and transplants. Quinn has always been interested in the public’s obsession with the body, its perfections and [...]

Candice Breitz Presents Third Exhibition at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents ‘Factum’, an exhibition of new work by Candice Breitz, the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. Shot in Toronto, Canada, ‘Factum’ is a series of in-depth video portraits of twins – and one set of triplets – that extends Breitz’s ongoing interest in doubling, portraiture and identity. Titled after Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Factum I’ and ‘II’ (1957) near-identical twin paintings, Breitz’s ‘Factum’ explores the modes of internal and external forces that drive individuation. Breitz has [...]

Nineteen New Paintings by Damien Hirst on View at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube presents nineteen new paintings by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will be staged at White Cube Mason’s Yard and White Cube Hoxton Square. At White Cube Hoxton Square, Hirst will present a group of paintings, which include three triptychs from 2007-09, each depicting crows shot in mid-flight against blue skies, with outspread wings and violent splatters of red paint across their bodies. In the four triptychs on show in the lower ground floor at White Cube Mason’s Yard, [...]