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| The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 1 January (2011) |
September 22, 2014
David Hockney
The Pace Gallery in Chelsea
Sept 5-Nov 4
Thank you, Mr. Hockney and the crew at the Pace, for
reminding us that, indeed, winter is coming, with your show, “The Arrival of
Spring”. The drawings are wonderful and
textured with the black and white, light, and dark patterns found in full
summer and spring scenes. The first
thing that you see upon entering the gallery is a giant video installation on
multiple screens of a lovely drive down a back country road in the dead of
winter. That is exactly what I like to
see while strolling through galleries in Chelsea in September after a short,
cool summer on the East Coast. Don’t get
me wrong. I love winter. It just seems to be coming so quickly this
year. Good thing the rest of the show was full of bright springtime color. The ipad paintings were large and
bright, featuring the signature style of saturated color and line that Hockney
is famous for. These images resonate
with his actual paintings quite well. As
for the medium, it is what it is and it is unapologetic. He made images on his ipad with the intention
of printing them to a large scale and that is exactly what is on the wall at
the Pace. It isn’t traditional painting
not is it traditional printing. These
are flattened, colorful images evoking emotion through the color relationships
and the honest recording of the passage of time in a place. It is what it is and it is beautiful. The colors are saturated, layered, and
limited. They tend to lie next to each
other and compete for real estate in the foreground. Even, so, there is surprisingly more depth to
the paintings than I had originally thought for this reason, but the line
quality is excellent and varied, and
linear perspective keeps the images in visual order.
What do you think? Ipad art part of the conversation now but is it important? Will the art world see more of this medium and embrace it or is it just relevant because one of our beloved living masters is using it?
For more information: http://www.pacegallery.com/newyork/exhibitions/12687/the-arrival-of-spring
