David Hockney: Moving Focus / Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Luzern

Long time readers know that I am inspired by the life and work of David Hockney.

My thoughts on Hockney's 2005 exhibition at LA Louver can be found here. 

 I wrote then and still feel that Hockney, throughout his career, has been as interested in how we see as in what we see. Light, color and questions on space and time have come to the forefront in both physics (light has become the cornerstone of reality and space and time have become observer-dependent) and the art of David Hockney. This new retrospective of David Hockney's art at the Kunstmuseum Luzern looks like a must see. 

From Vernissage TV:

"The Kunstmuseum Luzern is currently showing the first comprehensive exhibition of David Hockney's works in Switzerland. The retrospective presents works from 1954 to 2018. Titled Moving Focus, the show includes his experimental early works, his famous pool paintings and double portraits, photographic works, and his more recent landscapes both in acrylic and as digital animation. One of the highlights is the monumental landscape painting Bigger Trees Near Warter or / Ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique (2007). The work consists of 50 canvases and measures more than 12 meters."

David Hockney: Moving Focus at the Museum of Art Lucerne in collaboration with Tate was curated by Fanni Fetzer and Helen Little. The exhibition is on view until October 30, 2022. 00:00 - Intro 00:19 - Moving Focus 01:24 - From London to Los Angeles 02:12 - A Rake's Progress 02:48 - Double Portraits 03:48 - Illustrations for C.P. Cavafy's Poems 04:02 - Naturalism 04:23 - A Bigger Landscape 05:53 - In the Studio 07:05 - Abstraction #davidhockney #movingfocus #painting