Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Gary Hume
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Born in 1962, Gary Hume is an English artist associated with a group called the YBA (Young British Artists) who came to prominence in the early 1990s.
Back of Snowman (2001) is part of a larger series of snowman sculptures, paintings and prints that feature the simplified form of two stacked spheres as its subject. At once joyful and enigmatic, the sculpture and its title connote childhood memories of playing in the snow, while the sculpture's simplified form also has an abstract aesthetic. Back of Snowman also embodies the playfulness characteristic of Hume's work - the title gives the impression that there is a front and a back to the sculpture, when in reality, the rounded forms are identical from all sides.