FRANCE: BRITISH PAINTER DAVID HOCKEY ANNOUNCES A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF HIS LANDSCAPES AT THE GEORGES POMPIDOU CENTRE

Record ID: 190099

  • Title: FRANCE: BRITISH PAINTER DAVID HOCKEY ANNOUNCES A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF HIS LANDSCAPES AT THE GEORGES POMPIDOU CENTRE
  • Date: 27th January 1999
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JANUARY 25, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PULL OUT SLV EXTERIOR VIEW GEORGES POMPIDOU CENTRE WITH NIKIE SAINT PHALLE FOUNTAIN 0.12 2. SV ARTIST DAVID HOCKNEY ARRIVING 0.20 3. CU HOCKNEY PAINTING OF FIELDS 0.29 4. SV HOCKNEY RAISING HIS ARMS IN FRONT OF GRAND CANYON PAINTING 0.36 5. PAN GRAND CANYON MONTAGE 0.50 6. LV/SV WOMAN LOOKING AT GRAND CANYON PAINTING (2 SHOTS) 1.01 7. MCU(English) DAVID HOCKNEY SAYING: "The point of the exhibition is the landscapes begin 30 years ago. That's the point, that's what it's doing. There's always been an interest in it, that's what the exhibition tells you quite clearly. It was more focused in the last few years but it's been there for 34 years." 1.25 8. LV/CU PAINTINGS (4 SHOTS) 1.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVADWBBZCG6UQEJK9NA3H5LNDP5T
  • Story Text: British painter David Hockney has announced a
    retrospective exhibition of his landscapes at the Georges
    Ponpidou centre in Paris, 25 years after his last exhibition
    in the city.

    The exhibition called Space/Landscape will open on
    January 28 and gathers together more than fifty paintings from
    the last 40 years.

    Speaking at a news conference on Sunday (Janaury 25),
    Hockney said the main inspiration for the show was the Grand
    Canyon landscape.

    "(The) Grand Canyon is the world's biggest hole, you only
    see it when you get at the edge of it.there is no
    perspectives, no focus point.For an agoraphobic like me,
    Grand Canyon has got a big fascination ".

    He added "The point of the exhibition is the landscapes
    begin 30 years ago.That's the point, that's what it's doing.

    There's always been an interest in it, that's what the
    exhibition tells you quite clearly.It was more focused in the
    last few years but it's been there for 34 years."
    Hockney said he wanted to make paintings without using new
    technologies, as he had done in the past.

    "I was keen to make new images without using new
    technologies....When you work with
    technology, you are at its mercy."
    He called the show the beginning of "his middle period".

    The 52-year-old artist has lived in California since 1964
    and became famous in the sixties as part of the London Pop art
    scene.Born to working-class parents in Bradford, northern
    England, he is Britain's most popular contemporary artist.
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