ART & EXHIBITIONS
He went on:“ It has been a pleasure to revisit works I made decades ago, including some of my earliest paintings. Many of them seem like old friends to me now. We’ re looking back over a lifetime with this exhibition, and I hope, like me, people will enjoy seeing how the roots of the new and recent work can be seen in developments over the years.”
The invention of Hockney’ s classic works is explored, including his portraits of family, friends and himself, as well as his iconic images of LA swimming pools. It also includes his celebrated Yorkshire landscapes of the 2000s and work made since his return to California in 2013.
“ When I’ m painting I feel 30 but when I stop I feel older. I’ m a bit slower than I was but I stand up to paint every day”
The exhibition, the fastest-selling in Tate history – 20,000 tickets were snapped up in advance – will also show how the artist has frequently changed his styles and way of working, embracing new technologies as he goes. For the first time this exhibition shows how the roots of each new direction lay in the work that came before. For example, his radical‘ joiner’ assemblages of photographs, such as the Pearlblossom Highway 1986, informed the paintings of his Hollywood home and the Californian landscapes that he made then and after.
Exhibition curator Chris Stephens had one question for Hockney when the pair of them began to put the exhibition together.“‘ What do you want people to feel when they leave?’ I asked him. To which he replied:‘ Joy. I’ d like them to leave looking more closely at the world because there is a lot of pleasure to be had from looking more closely.’” R
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