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David Hockney Criticised For Childish Tube Sign Design / /
On the eve of a major new show at the Royal Academy, Britain’s best-loved artist David Hockney has been criticised, by members of the public, mostly on social media, for his Piccadilly tube station redesign, commissioned by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. The same old chestnut has been rearing its head in the fall out, which exclaims, “it could have been done by my seven year old!” I suppose with the opening of the Dubuffet exhibition at the Barbican, the vocal public will have the opportunity to learn about Art Brut and its influence on art in our time. This is nothing new, let the public outrage begin! At least it promotes discussion and engagement.
Photo: Tête-à-Tête Productions, courtesy of Pace
It’s probably this approach that makes Adjaye both refreshingly and frustratingly hard to categorise. His many buildings around the world are without an obvious signature, as are his smaller-scale products and furniture. Some call him a radical, an abstractionist; some even compare his buildings and furniture design to conceptual art. “I’m not really interested in synthesising form through a language of architecture, so my buildings never look the same,” he says.
One common thread is his need to investigate history and ecology to inform our future he regularly discusses his desire to preserve culture, protect the environment and uplift communities. This has inspired buildings such as the monumental Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington DC, which opened in 2016 and arguably remains the highest-profile project of his career. He has also designed game-changing libraries, such as the
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While others were hunkering down at the start of this pandemic, stockpiling loo roll and binge-watching hours of TV rubbish, our most successful living artist had other ideas.
In all weathers, at all hours at the age of 82 David Hockney was out in his garden capturing the micro-mayhem of spring breaking out across four acres of Normandy countryside. The result is 116 ‘paintings’, composed entirely on an iPad during 95 days of lockdown.
And later this month, the public will be able to immerse themselves in Hockney’s latest embodiment of his unofficial motto: ‘Love life’, at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
David Hockney’s Newest Work Will Be Shown in 5 Cities Around the World This Spring Sandra Ramani
An image of a sun rising out of the darkness is a poetic way of representing the emergence of spring after a long winter and a fitting symbol of hope at this moment in time, as the world begins to reawaken after the pandemic’s twin traumas of grief and isolation. It’s also the central theme of a new video work by David Hockney, one of the world’s most renowned living artists. For two and a half minutes every evening in May, Hockney’s