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January 23, 2012
The latest works in David Hockey: A Bigger Picture were made in the last eight years in the East Yorkshire Wolds near Hockney's Bridlington home. It is Hockney reinventing himself as a full-blooded landscape artist who highlights the importance of seeing and of observing and studying change.
David Hockney, Woldgate Woods, 21, 23 & 29 November 2006.
He paints big canvases --walling filling, eg., the Closer Grand Canyon painting of 1998 ---and in bright, often discordant and gaudy colours. Digital video stills, the simultaneous operation of nine cameras, and the iPhone and iPad are now his instruments of drawing.
David Hockney, A Closer Winter Tunnel, February-March 2006, oil on six canvases.
One of the final rooms in the exhibition presents a bank of screens – multi-camera footage of Yorkshire mixed with interior films and motifs from Hockney’s paintings. The videos have been filmed simultaneously using nine and eighteen cameras, fitted on customised cars, providing a spell-binding, immersive experience.
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