David Hockney: Time and More, Space and More
@ Richard Gray Gallery
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, September 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 21st
Richard Gray Gallery is pleased to announce Time and More, Space and Moreâ¦, an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney, on view at the gallery’s Gray Warehouse location from September 13 through November 21, 2018. Time and More, Space and More⦠is the artistâs tenth solo exhibition with Richard Gray Gallery and first exhibition at Gray Warehouse.
Time and More, Space and More⦠presents Hockneyâs recent video and photographic works in tandem. Making its gallery debut at the center of the exhibition is Hockneyâs multi-part video installation The Four Seasons, Woldgate Woods, 2010-2011, which was exhibited in 2017 at Centre Georges Pompidou and Tate Britain. The work is composed of four 9-channel video walls and arranged within the space like the cardinal directions of a compass rose. Depicting the same view down a tree-lined country road in Yorkshire, each wall distinctively captures one of the four seasons. The video installation conveys Hockneyâs agility in multiplying time and perspectives – a skill he honed in the 1980s using polaroid photography. As Arthur Kolat notes in his catalogue essay, ââ¦Unlike the earlier photo collages which included a multitude of consecutive moments, The Four Seasons includes both consecutive time and simultaneous time.â
Hockney uses the camera to produce impossible visual spaces – a theme which he has carried throughout his practice across a variety of media. Striving to replicate the kaleidoscopic experience of seeing through a composite of vantage points, the photographic drawings on view in the exhibition offer a panoramic sense of time and space in their portrayal of the artistâs Los Angeles studio. As is the case with Hockneyâs video works, these large-scale photo drawings came about through Hockneyâs own innovations to photographic and technological processes.
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