David Hockney
May 12th 2011 Rudston to Kilham Road 5pm
18 digital videos, synchronized and presented on 18 55” NEC screens to comprise a single artwork, 27 x 477/9’ each, 81 x 287’ overall, Duration: 2:00,
© David Hockney
David Hockney: Yorkshire Landscape Videos at LACMA ‘David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011’ – LACMA presents first US presentation of David Hockney’s new video work. November 3, 2013 – January 20, 2014.]]>
Source: LACMA Los Angeles
Considered one of the most versatile, innovative artists of thepostwar era, David Hockney (British, born 1937) has, throughout hisprolific career in Los Angeles and England, uniquely investigated thenature and potency of various media, constantly redefining ourunderstanding of perception and art history. In the late 1970s,Hockney collaged Polaroids of a subject together to form a singlecomposition. The artist has since expanded upon these early montagesby embracing a variety of new, cutting-edge media, including faxmachines, iPad and iPhone drawings, and most recently film, in orderto explore new ways to depict movement through the juxtaposition ofmultiple perspectives of a singular event.
In this new film, Hockney employs 18 fixed cameras to record multipleperspectives of a drive through the landscape of Yorkshire, a countyin northern England. The film is displayed in a multiscreen grid,which generates a larger, intensified image, and opens the viewingexperience to various temporal moments rather than a singular moment.For Hockney, this blending of numerous views “forces the eye to scan,and it is impossible to see everything at once … [It] gives backthe choice to the viewer, and hence, it seems to me, brings aboutpossibilities for new narratives.” The exhibition is curated byStephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art.
LACMA has long championed Hockney’s renowned and groundbreakingoeuvre. In addition to owning his monumental paintings “MulhollandDrive: The Road to the Studio” (1980) and “California Copied from 1965Painting in 1987” (1987) as well as almost 200 prints, drawings, andphotographs, LACMA also organized David Hockney: A Retrospective(1988) and has hosted David Hockney: A Drawing Retrospective (1996)and David Hockney Portraits (2006).
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