David Hockney The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 1 January (2011)
iPad drawing printed on paper, edition of 25 signed and numbered 139.7 x 105.4 cm
An exhibition of drawings and iPad prints by David Hockney, one of Britain’s leading artists, will go on show at Annely Juda Fine Art in London opening on 8 May 2014.
The exhibition includes 30 drawings, which take as their subject the arrival of spring in Yorkshire in 2013. 25 of these drawings consist of five separate views of Woldgate drawn at five different times of spring forming a series of 5 x 5. Additionally, there are five drawings at different times of the season of Hockney’s favourite ‘totem’ tree trunk, which was later vandalised, an event which affected the artist deeply.
The 20 colour prints were drawn on Hockney’s iPad and also show the arrival of spring in Yorkshire. David Hockney says about them:
The color prints are from the iPad. These were drawn in 2011 and first shown at the Royal Academy in 2012, and so I have made just small editions of them. Some took two or three days to draw, and they were all drawn knowing they would be printed bigger. They were deliberately made for printing.
Also shown in the exhibition will be the video work “Woldgate Woods, 26 November 2010”, an installation of nine digital videos synchronized and presented on nine screens to comprise a single artwork.
About The Artist
Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney attended Bradford School of Art before studying at the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1962. His stellar reputation was established while he was still a student; his work was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries, which heralded the birth of British Pop Art. He visited Los Angeles in the early 1960s and settled there soon after. He is closely associated with southern California and has produced a large body of work there over many decades. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1991.
The iPad prints were first shown in 2012 at the Royal Academy of Arts major exhibition A Bigger Picture, which later traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao and Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The iPad prints and drawings were shown in 2013 in A Bigger Exhibition at the de Young museum, San Francisco.
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring 8th May – 12th July 2014 Annely Juda Fine Art, 23 Dering Street, London W1S 1AW
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