Howard Hodgkin
dal 31/1/2007 al 31/3/2007
Segnalato da
31/1/2007
Howard Hodgkin
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Paintings 1992-2007. Nominally abstract, his paintings are, in his words, representational pictures of emotional situations. The exhibition features nearly fifty works from private collections and museums in the United States and Great Britain. A focused intellectual and physical process goes into making each work, as each painting is built up from a series of interlocking elements.
Paintings 1992-2007
Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) is among the most important artists working in Britain today. Nominally abstract, his paintings are, in his words, representational pictures of emotional situations. Layering paint on his surfaces and frames (sometimes over the course of years), Hodgkin creates --and recreates-- intense experiences for his viewers. This spring, the Yale Center for British Art will be the only U.S. venue to present an exhibition of works by Hodgkin from the last fifteen years. Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007 will feature nearly fifty works from private collections and museums in the United States and Great Britain.
The works on view in the exhibition range from small paintings that draw the viewer into intimate encounters, such as Old Sky (1996-97) and Theatre (1998-99), to large ones whose presence is often imposing, such as Performance Art (2003-04), Memorial (2000-03), and An Italian Landscape (2003-05). A focused intellectual and physical process goes into making each work, as each painting is built up from a series of interlocking elements: the event or situation that inspires the artist; the evolution of that inspiration as the painting is created; and the impact of the finished object on those who experience it.
Co-organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Yale Center for British Art, the exhibition will open in New Haven in February 2007 and will travel to Cambridge in May. Conceived independently, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007 will complement recent exhibitions and publications, providing a critical coda to the current scholarship on this artists work.
From 1940-43 Hodgkin lived in Long Island, New York, having been evacuated from London during WWII. It was in these formative years that he resolved to become an artist. He later attended the Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and, the following year, won the Turner Prize, the most prestigious award granted by a British art museum (Tate). Throughout his career, his work has been exhibited extensively by U.S. museums. The Yale Center for British Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., showed a selection of his work in 1985; a decade later, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth organized a major retrospective, Paintings 1975-1995, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and toured to museums in Fort Worth, Dsseldorf and London. A selection of his work was exhibited in 2003 at Gagosian Gallery in New York City. Most recently, a major retrospective of his work was organized by Tate Britain and the Irish Museum Modern Art in Dublin, which also traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa in Madrid.
The exhibition is co-curated by Julia Marciari Alexander, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications, and David E. Scrase, Assistant Director of Collections and Keeper of the Department of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Image: Torso, 2000, oil on wood, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., (c) Howard Hodgkin. Photo credit: Prudence Cuming Associates, Ltd.
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