The exhibition being held at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome, with etchings from the British Council’s collection allows a look into a period in which Hockney, through the use of engraving, made some of his most original thoughts, finding in this medium solutions to temporary doubts and misgivings regarding formalism related to his painting.
On show are the series A Rake’s Progress, Illustrations for 14 Poems by C. P. Cavafy, Illustrations for Six Fairytales from the Brothers Grimm, The Blue Guitar. A selection which allows an appreciation of the artist’s attraction toward literature and poetry, from which he derived a total adhesion to the figurative and the insistence – unconventional for the time – on the capacity for communication and emotion which the human figure allows to transmit.
until 24.11.2002
David Hockney. Acqueforti
Istituto Nazionale Grafica
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