Opening of the Lightroom with Hockney: Spectacular new exhibition

Retrospectives of great artists are often exhibition highlights and bring to light new insights into the respective oeuvre. How would it be if an artist himself guided us through his retrospective? This is now possible in the Lightroom. David Hockney takes visitors to London on this journey. Thanks to the latest achievements such as audio technology from HOLOPLOT and spectacular visual innovations from disguise, Hockney explains his creative processes and experiments with painted perspectives. David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) is divided into six chapters accompanied by specially composed music by Nico Muhly and Hockney's commentaries on the paintings. The exhibition runs from 22 February to 4 June.

Hockney (*1937) is one of the most important contemporary painters. His oeuvre spans six decades, from his famous pool paintings in Los Angeles to his recent landscape paintings in Normandy, which he paints on an iPad. Hockney credits his success to his calm gaze, with which he explores the world and discovers beauty: »The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, they don’t really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do.«