The day after its flamboyant exhibition “Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann &…”, bringing together 150 works by the leading figure of Pop Art and his contemporaries, the Louis Vuitton Foundation is honoring a leading artist of art modern: David Hockney. Zoom in on this imminent cultural event which will undoubtedly mark the year 2025.
The big splash. While his exhibition Bigger and Closer (not smaller and further away) (Bigger and Closer (not Smaller and Farther) is in full swing at Aviva Studios in Manchester, its home ground, David Hockney intends to occupy even more space. Good news, its next pigment splash will take place this year, at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. An eventful return to the French capital, eight years after its retrospective at the Center Pompidou, on the occasion of its 80th anniversary.
Today, the artist is 87 years old and still produces canvases or vast expanses of medium, drawings with pencil, or even with his finger on the screen of an IPad. A creative freedom characteristic of his work, with an indelible flamboyance across the decades. To mark his visit to the Louis Vuitton Foundation, his next exhibition will focus on his last twenty-five years of creation.
Landscapes of the world
David Hockney's images travel the world. His brush captures the vibrant colors of every landscape and form, challenging styles, intensity of pigments and limits of perspective, hedonistic fragments of life. Starting with what opens it to the world: the easy and sunny daily life of Los Angeleshis instant Polaroids and his acrylic roller paints, which inspire his essential A Bigger Splash in 1967. Installed in California since 1964 – a refreshing exile who does not know the bad weather and the worries of his native England – it is finally a reconciliation with its Yorkshire and its emblematic hills in the summer of 1997, with Garrowby hillwhich roots it as close as possible to its origins.
An anchorage that he left for some time to once again immortalize the rays of Los Angeles, but also the reliefs of the Grand Canyon in 1998, before Normandy finally won his heart, twenty years later. Over the past two decades, the digital worked his way into his creative processcontinually nourishing his work and its transmission throughout the world. A colorful artistic epic to soon be explored in a new journey at the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
The David Hockney exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation will take place from April 9, 2025 to September 1, 2025.
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