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Accompanied by a 30 page introduction which includes Hockney's own words and snippets from interviews, this cool accordion catalogue reproduces in 17.8 metres (53ft 10") the 220 iPad paintings that Hockney created between 2020-2021 from his house in the middle of a field in Normandy. The works in the exhibition were presented as one long continuous scroll and it invited the viewer to experience the very different way of seeing embedded in the long narrative sequences of the scroll format and their lack of one-point perspective.
In the introductory essay Hockney relates how he had been smitten with the scroll format upon being shown one that was 30 metres long in 1983 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that illustrated the Emperor of China inspecting the canal between Wuxi and Suzhou. Hockney described this experience as "...one of the most exciting days of my life," further remarking that "In Chinese scrolls, you walked through the landscape - it was not a window, looking out; you were in it."
Hockney's scroll documents one year in Normandie and he particularly chose this location because of the different types of blossoms in the landscape with his own property hosting apple, pear, cherry and plum trees.
Accompanying this accordion is a slim catalogue titled "David Hockney and the Würth Collection" and it documents the museum's relationship with Hockney and is illustrated his works in their collection along with an examination of his working methods.
68 single-sided pages, individually 7" x 9.5, and when unfolded 53ft 10" (17.8 metres)
the two catalogues
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