"A Year in Normandie, a vast frieze that unfolds like a pictorial scroll across the wall. Created between 2020 and 2021, the work traces the changing seasons in the landscape surrounding Hockney's home in rural Normandy. Its format deliberately echoes narrative works such as the Bayeux Tapestry and traditional Chinese scroll paintings, allowing the viewer to follow the passing of time as spring turns to summer, autumn and winter."
"The work was created digitally on an iPad during the early months of the pandemic, when Hockney spent much of his time observing the garden around him. Working outdoors, he produced more than a hundred quick digital paintings that capture fleeting changes in light, colour and weather."
"At the heart of the exhibition is a new body of work made for the gallery - ten paintings comprising five still lifes and five portraits. The portraits depict people from Hockney's close circle, including family members and carers, while the still lifes focus on everyday objects arranged around the same recurring motif - a gingham tablecloth painted in a slightly disconcerting reversed perspective."
The Serpentine Gallery presents David Hockney's new exhibition featuring A Year in Normandie, a vast digital frieze created between 2020 and 2021 that documents seasonal changes in the artist's rural Normandy landscape. The work deliberately echoes the Bayeux Tapestry and Chinese scroll paintings, allowing viewers to follow time's passage through spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Hockney created the frieze on an iPad during the pandemic's early months, producing over a hundred quick digital paintings capturing fleeting changes in light, colour, and weather. The exhibition also includes ten new paintings comprising five portraits of family members and carers, and five still lifes featuring a gingham tablecloth with reversed perspective. A large-scale printed mural from the Normandy series is installed in the gallery's garden.
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