Everything he has made since has been guided by memory, emotion, and physical sensation as opposed to strategy and rational thought. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.Īmong his generation’s the most influential filmmakers, Korine first rose to prominence after writing the script for the film ‘Kids’ (1995), directed by Larry Clark. Marc Payot, President, Hauser & Wirth, Harmony Korine, Caker Plino 2015 Oil, acrylic, house paint, and ink on canvas 256.5 × 182.9 cm / 101 × 72in Photo by Josh White © Harmony Korine. We look forward to collaborating with Harmony in the months and years ahead. In this sense, Harmony takes his place among such artists in our program as Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, and Rita Ackermann.
Our fixations on youth, material consumption and disposability, violence and romantic anti-heroes, all find their way into his work, from films and writing to drawings and paintings. In his multidisciplinary practice over the past three decades, Harmony has performed a sort of real-time psychoanalysis of contemporary America––and done so on his own terms, fearlessly, without pandering or seeking consensus. We are delighted to welcome Harmony Korine to the gallery. Portrait of Harmony Korine Photo: Rachel Korine © Harmony Korine. Korine’s oeuvre is both deliberate and erratic, figurative and abstract, and, like his films, blurs boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ in ways that simultaneously attract and repel viewers with its hypnotic, otherworldly atmosphere. Working in recent years primarily with painting and photography, his practice is built upon tireless experimentation and a trial-and-error path that produces what he calls ‘Mistakist Art.’ Inspired by material culture, Korine often incorporates everyday items––squeegees, house paint, steak knives, old VHS tapes––into his compositions, which are frequently embellished with distorted language and intentionally misspelled words. Over the last thirty years, Harmony Korine has cultivated a multidisciplinary art practice that resists categorization and is admired internationally for the improvisation, humor, repetition, nostalgia and poetry that unite the disparate aspects of his output. Hauser & Wirth now represent Harmony Korine the American artist and filmmaker.
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