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David Hockney "Exciting times are ahead" A Retrospective 1 June - 23 September 2001
There has been no major exhibition of paintings by David Hockney on the European Continent for over 30 years. 108 carefully selected paintings and a few specific complementary works in other media permit, for the first time in Germany, a clear insight into the œuvre of England's most significant painter of the 20th century. The works, which are extremely diverse in both style and technique, are arranged thematically according to the differing interrelations between picture, subject, observer and space. Since he began painting in the early 1960s, Hockney has constantly found new ways to relate to the presence of the observer, trying out highly diverse systems of perspective and formal styles. In his most recent picture, the monumental A Bigger Grand Canyon, painted on 60 panels, he enables us to experience the spectacular depth of the Grand Canyon while maintaining a richly textured, flat picture plane. Hockney takes his motifs from his immediate environment. He paints his friends, his dogs, his house, the rooms he stays in on his travels and the landscapes he visits. Hockney paints what he sees. Very few of his paintings are imaginary scenes. His most important subjects are traditional: portraits, still lifes and landscapes. His work is significant because it opens up new experiences of time and space 
David Hockney - Biographyemail: Kay Heymer, Project Manager
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