If you like David Hockney, then you need to see his new exhibition @serpentineuk
By Watson Evans Art
If you like David Hockney, then you need to see his new exhibition @serpentineuk
“A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting” has just opened and brings Hockneys ninety-metre-long frieze ‘A Year in Normandie’ to London for the first time.
Moving through the galleries you feel the passage of time. Many of the landscapes were made five years ago and as you walk through the seasons there is an added poignancy as you think where the world was five years ago.
As the colours move from Autumn through Spring and into Summer there is a sense of lightness and play that feels unmistakably Hockney.
But the best works and the works that stayed with me the most are the newest paintings at the centre of the exhibition. These abstract compositions feel fresh. By placing the abstract paintings on tabletops he is challenging how we see.
What are we looking at?
Is this a table or simply an abstract composition?
A reminder of the restless curiosity and inventive mind that has always been at the heart of David Hockneys work.