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David Hockney's A Bigger Picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture is the first major exhibition held in Spain to celebrate the crucial role landscape plays in the career of this artist, considered the most important living British painter.<\/p>\n

Bright landscapes inspired by his native county of Yorkshire form the core of this exhibition which, with Iberdrola\u2019s sponsorship, brings together on the Museum\u2019s second floor around 150 works\u2014oil paintings, charcoals, iPad drawings, sketchbooks and digital videos\u2014most of which have been created in the past eight years. This exhibition offers a unique vision into Hockney’s creative world and demonstrates his enormous capacity to represent nature using different techniques, as well as revealing his attachment to the landscape of his youth.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also illustrates the extent to which the depiction of the natural environment has been present throughout the artist’s career, even when other subjects were the focus of his output. A selection of works from 1956\u2014during his student days in Bradford\u2014until 1998 contextualizes Hockney\u2019s later landscapes and reveals his early preoccupation with the representation of space and his use of color and manipulation of perspective to reflect the natural world.<\/p>\n

One of the large, petal-shaped galleries designed by Frank Gehry houses Hockney’s early works, which come from different public and private international collections and date from the late 1950s, while he was still a student, and the 1960s, such as Flight into Italy \u2013 Swiss Landscape (1962), a stylized representation of Alpine peaks. Exhibited alongside them are two of his famous photographic collages from the 1980s, Grand Canyon Looking North, Sept. 1982 and Pearblossom Highway, 11\u201318 April 1986 # 1, a work in which a road draws the viewer into the painting, showcasing Hockney\u2019s experimentation with perspective and the representation of pictorial space in Cubism.<\/p>\n

This same space with curved walls features his two paintings of the Grand Canyon, made in 1998, including the spectacular landscape A Closer Grand Canyon (1998), which is more than seven meters long. From the same year is Garrowby Hill (1998), a work created from memory in the studio after his return to Yorkshire in 1997 to spend time with his friend Jonathan Silver, who was terminally ill and had always supported his career. The drive between his mother\u2019s house and his friend\u2019s deathbed in the town of Wetherby familiarized Hockney further with the landscapes of his youth and inspired a deep interest in and affection for its features.<\/p>\n

Opening and closing dates: from May 15 to September 30, 2012. Curators: Edith Devaney, Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Marco Livingstone, Independent Curator. Sponsored by: Iberdrola<\/p>\n

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