This spring, David Hockney will unveil a serious new work at Turner Modern in Margate, UK, as a part of the gallery’s Fifteenth-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a large 22-by-32-foot set up, will rework the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window within the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s seashores and the North Sea.
Working from April 1 to November 1, the window work depicts a dawn in Normandy, primarily based on an iPad portray Hockney created in 2020. Clarrie Wallis, the director of Turner Modern, mentioned in an announcement that “illuminated at evening, the work turns into a degree of sunshine on the seafront.”
Turner Modern, which opened in 2011 and welcomed over 322,000 guests within the 2023-24 yr, is impressed by the life and work of JMW Turner. Hockney has mentioned he attracts inspiration from the enduring panorama painter; again in 2007, the Bradford-born artist co-curated an exhibition of Turner’s watercolours at Tate Britain.
Hockney fever reveals no signal of slowing down within the UK. Subsequent month, London’s Serpentine Galleries opens its first-ever present by the octogenarian artist from March 12 to August 23. The exhibition will function a brand new physique of labor, together with 5 nonetheless lifes and 5 portraits of individuals near Hockney, together with relations to carers.
Guests can even get a glimpse of A 12 months in Normandy (2020–21), a 90-metre-long frieze impressed by the Bayeux Tapestry that tracks the altering seasons at Hockney’s former Normandy studio. The Bayeux Tapestry itself is ready to go on show on the British Museum later this yr. Earlier this yr, Hockney described transferring the tapestry to London as “insanity,” warning that the “lovely in addition to traditionally necessary” piece might be broken. Nonetheless, the British Museum’s director Nicholas Cullinan has disputed the declare.
Hockey continues to be an enormous draw. His 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain noticed over 478,000 guests, whereas final yr the largest-ever exhibition of his work at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris was additionally successful.
