- Alice Pelot
David Hockney “Painting and Photography”
@ Annely Juda Fine Art
15 May – 27 June
David Hockney “Painting and Photography”
@ Annely Juda Fine Art
15 May – 27 June
Multiple vanishing points dissect David Hockney’s photo-collaged paintings in his solo exhibition Painting and Photography at Annely Juda Fine Art. The singular vanishing point popularized by Italian Renaissance architect Brunelleschi produces distance between the image and viewer like the thin space of the iPhone between photographer and subject. Photography’s single perspective is intimately familiar. It accurately reflects our experience of media images, but it is not a realistic representation of our otherwise mobile lives. Artists such as Jeff Wall challenge the single perspective by composing images from many photographs. Each photograph with a single perspective gives the whole image a rich, cinematic Imax quality through the resulting multi-point perspective. Similarly, Hockney’s detailed close up photographs, each with their singular vanishing points, compose figures leaning on crooked tables or floating in vast, furnished rooms. Hung among his painted portraits, Hocney’s collages of large rooms with their high definition quality are extensions of the gallery space inviting us to join the photographed crowd and examine his works as collaged behind the multi-perspective visitors.