데이비드 호크니

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전시제목 데이비드 호크니: 와터 부근의 더 큰 나무들
전시기간 2013.09.03 - 2014.02.28
전시장소 국립현대미술관 / 중앙홀
참여작가 데이비드 호크니

 

 

데이비드 호크니는 앤디 워홀과는 다른 성격의 작품 같아보이지만, 팝아트 작가입니다.  1960년대의 미국의 한 단면을 볼 수 있는 새로운 미술입니다. 초기 60년대 그의 회화에서는 주로 수영하는 남자들의 모습이 보입니다. 그 후, 1980년대에 접어들면서 사진을 오려 모자이크 사진으로  만드는 그 만의 독자적인 작품세계를 구축해 나갑니다. 우리나라에서 열리는 데이비드 호크니의 전시라 기대가 컸는데, 회화와 비디오 한편이다. 하지만, 이 커다란 하나의 회화는 50 개의 캔버스, 그리고 이 비디오 한편은 그의 작품 전반을 모두 담고 있어 그의 작품 세계를 이해하는 데 도움을 주고 있다.  좋을 수도~, 안 좋을 수도~

 

 Hockney, David (1937- ). British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer. After a brilliant prize-winning career as a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by the time he was in his mid-20s, and has since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British artist of his generation. His phenomenal success has been based not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested in art: a film about him entitled A Bigger Splash (1974) enjoyed considerable popularity in the commercial cinema.

 

 와터 근처의 더 큰 나무들 또는 새로운 포스트-사진 시대를 위한 모티브에 관한 회화, 2007,  50개의 캔버스에 유채 (각 91.8×122.5cm)450×1200cm

 

 

Technically, it is true to say that the Pop movement started with Richard Hamilton and David Hockney in England. Hockney's early work made superb use of the popular magazine-style images on which much of Pop Art is based. However, when Hockney moved to California in the 1960s, he responded with such artistic depth to the sea, sun, sky, young men, and luxury that his art took on a wholly new, increasingly naturalistic dimension. Though one might consider A Bigger Splash a simplistic rather than a simplified view of the world, it nevertheless creates a delightful interplay between the stolid pink verticals of a Los Angeles setting and the exuberance of spray as the unseen diver enters the pool. There is no visible human presence here, just that lonely, empty chair and a bare, almost frozen world. Yet that wild white splash can only come from another human, and a great deal of Hockney's psyche is involved in the mix of lucidity and confusion of this picture.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Herbst Exhibition Galleries  , san francisco

October 26, 2013 - January 20, 2014

 

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition marks the return to California of the best-known British artist of his generation with a show assembled exclusively for the de Young. It is the first comprehensive survey of Hockney’s work since 2002, arguably the most prolific decade of his career.

As the title makes clear, this exhibition is grand in scope and scale. Many of the landscapes are of monumental proportions, including multi-canvas oil paintings and large-scale digital movies shot with multiple cameras, some requiring as many as 18 monitors for their display. More than 300 works in 18,000 square feet of gallery space make this the largest show in the history of the de Young.

Hockney (b. 1937) is renowned for using new technologies in his art, from Polaroid cameras and fax machines to the iPhone. This exhibition highlights his Photoshop portraits, digital videos that track the changing seasons, and bright landscapes created using the iPad. It also encompasses more traditional media, such as oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and the artist’s first extensive work using watercolors.

The landscapes in the exhibition picture the agrarian settings of Hockney’s beloved England, as well as his unique perspectives of California, Iceland, and Norway. The portraits, a vital aspect of Hockney’s practice since his youth, depict friends, colleagues, and family members, revealing the artist’s personal and intimate relationships with his sitters. This first showing of recent charcoal portraits and landscapes that depict the arrival of spring in 2013 reveal the artist at the peak of his creative powers.

 David Hockney, Woldgate Woods, 30 March–21 April, 2006. Oil on canvas (six panels). © David Hockney, 2013