David Hockney Unveils 70m 'A Year in Normandie' at Serpentine
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 14
David Hockney Unveils 70m 'A Year in Normandie' at Serpentine
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 14
Summary
Hockney’s 70-meter “A Year in Normandie” is on view at London’s Serpentine, presenting a single panoramic walk through the changing seasons.
The 2020-2021 work was inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and assembled from 100 images Hockney made outdoors on his iPad.
Normandy became the project’s setting after Hockney moved there in 2018 and worked intensively during lockdown, turning the landscape into a sustained seasonal record.
The Serpentine display places the piece within a career that ranged from California pool paintings to vast Yorkshire landscapes, underscoring Hockney’s long-running interest in perspective, place and new technology.