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DENMARK / Humlebæk: DAVID HOCKNEY
by Modem
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until Sunday June 14 2015

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
T : +45 (0)8 49 19 07 19
Gl. Strandvej 13
3050 Humlebæk
Denmark



For David Hockney (born 1937) art is the unique connection between observation and reproduction. Louisiana’s guests have experienced this themselves, every time they have stood before Hockney’s A Closer Grand Canyon, one of the major paintings in the museum’s collection, and in 2011, when Louisiana exhibited Hockney, who had suddenly thrown himself into iPhone and iPad as reproductive media for his experiences.

Once again it is time for Hockney at Louisiana, this time in the Louisiana on Paper series with the artist’s striking drawings of the landscape of Yorkshire, where he was born. They are completely classical in style, sometimes drawn in the open air, other times from the driver’s seat of a car parked by the corner of a fence. Hockney is a master draughtsman of a lineage with the best in art history. His drawings are peerless and the pleasure at the sight of them is contagious.

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