In 1990, in a forlorn warehouse in the Docklands district of London, Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas put on the “East Country Yard Show.” Among its exhibitors were Lucas, Tom Trevor, Henry Bond, and Anya Gallaccio. There was also a young man of 28 who attracted a lot of attention with his use of high-gloss industrial paint. His name was Gary Hume. “I paint with gloss paint,” Hume explained in 2013, “because it’s fluid, it sets, it’s all standard, it’s recognizable, it’s mundane stuff that we’ve all got—old pots in the cupboard and under the stairs. When you make a painting out of it, it becomes beautiful. It transforms itself from a mundane object to a beautiful object.” Just this month, during London Fashion Week, the backdrop for Burberry’s catwalk show at the National Theatre was a replica of Hume’s installation, Bays, from that seminal 1990 exhibition. In case you missed it—Sprüth Magers is now showing Hume’s groundbreaking paintings, drawings, and sculptures through October. —Elena Clavarino