David Hockney Opens 2025 Digital Exhibition in London, Expanding His iPad-to-Immersive Art Push
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 13
David Hockney Opens 2025 Digital Exhibition in London, Expanding His iPad-to-Immersive Art Push
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 13
Summary
"Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)" opened at London’s Lightroom as a part-autobiographical digital exhibition built around David Hockney’s art and ideas on perspective.
The show extends Hockney’s long embrace of new tools, from Polaroid photo collages to iPad drawing, which he used to make viewing more immediate and less tied to single-point perspective.
That approach fits a career shaped by experiments across painting, photography, stage design and immersive presentation, with Yorkshire landscapes, Los Angeles scenes and intimate portraits among his defining subjects.
The London opening also reinforces Hockney’s reputation as a technological innovator whose late-career digital work remained recognizably his despite criticism of the iPad pieces.