One of Great Britain’s most celebrated artists will enjoy a solo show at a Singapore art gallery. The collection of prints by artist David Hockney will be on display starting at the beginning of July. Visitors can enjoy the free exhibit, which is mostly intended for educational purposes, through the beginning of September.
The collection of prints is mostly taken from what the Singapore Art Museum had in stock, which was a portion of a collection from the American founder of a print institute in Singapore. Most art fans know Hockney’s work as challenging, bold, and modern, particularly his series of bright treatments of pools in Los Angeles, California. Hockney himself, though about 80 years of age, continues to be influential in the art world. Continually evolving his creative style and practice throughout his career, the print collection is just one facet of Hockney’s body of work. He now dabbles in painting via art applications on Apple iPads, for example, embracing everything technology has to offer.
The American print enthusiast who donated the prints for the exhibit used to work with Hockney in his studio. Hockney, experimenting with cutting-edge technology even then, used fax machines to put his own fingerprint on printing, sending his art pieces through them to create the prints.
The show at the Singapore gallery comes on the heels of other Hockney retrospectives held around the world, including in the United States, Paris, and London. At the London show, the exhibit was the most popular in the history of the museum. The facility even had to make arrangements to stay open until midnight the last weekend of the Hockney show to fulfill visitor demand.
The prints that will be on display at the Singapore gallery showcase Hockney’s dabbling in his different ideas of perspective. One of the prints, which will be on display for the first time at the gallery, challenges viewers on their preconceived notions of just what makes a good photograph. In the print, people mill around an art opening. There are pictures hanging on the wall of the exhibit displaying even more people milling around. Surprisingly, what draws the viewer’s eye are a serious of blue stools scattered around the exhibit space. Some of them display flowers, while others are empty. It is obvious that they are not supposed to be the focus, but somehow, the viewer simply can’t look away, challenged to find meaning and significance.
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