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Cristina Iglesias’s latest installation Sea Cave (Entrance) was unveiled at the 3rd edition of the MICAS International Art Weekend
It’s the capital’s flagship exhibition this autumn, showcasing some of David Hockney’s finest works over a career spanning six decades, including a recent series of sometimes controversial digital paintings that defiantly celebrated spring during the first lockdown in 2020.
/ David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France. What has emerged in this heartfelt series is an absorbing and interesting pattern of visual meditations on, as the title has it, the arrival of spring (Normandy 2020). Hockney has also been enthused by the iPad. Engineers from Apple refined digital brushes for the artist, and he also discovered new layers of colour ...
/ From June 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, comprising the period in which these works were made coincided with the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, where Hockney, along with the rest of Europe and much of the world, was in a state of lockdown. Faced with an unprecedented and perplexing period, Hockney’s focus on the emergence of spring instead celebrates the natural world and urges people to’ love life’ as he does himself in one of his frequently used phrases. This will be the first time the works will...
Many of the works in the show have been hung together to demonstrate their structural similarities, such as Emin’s Black Cat (2008) and Munch’s The Death of Marat II (1907) © Nicky J Sims/Getty Images As an MA student at the Royal College of Art in 1989, Tracey Emin carried all of the paintings she could from her studio and smashed them to smithereens with a sledgehammer in the college courtyard—before throwing what was left into a skip. The mangled canvases formed part of what she has since called, only half in jest, her “Byzantine-Fresco-Munch” series. Unapolo...