Besides the iconic Swimming Pools, The First Marriage (1962), Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970–1971) and My Parents (1977) exceptionally on loan, this comprehensive retrospective offers a fascinating survey of David Hockney’s precise exploration of the portrait, the nude and the landscape as well as of his printed graphics. It highlights his different forms of expression in an experience of perception oscillating between the concrete and the abstract.
Portraits and nudes show his constant preoccupation with queer eroticism, even at a time when homosexuality was still a penal offence in Great Britain. With his more recent landscapes, Hockney returns time and again to his roots in the North of England with works which often hover at the borderline of representational art.
Organized in cooperation with the Tate and curated by Bettina M. Busse, Veronika Rudorfer and Helen Little (Tate).
