David Hockney. My Window

'For me, it's really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy... It's opening up our vision, and how we look'—David HockneyWhen David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibilities for his art. He made his first digital paintings in spring 2009, describing the morning landscape in broad lines and dazzling colors directly on a display that offered subtle hues as unmixed expressions of pure light. Then in 2010, Hockney started working with an iPad, and the larger screen expanded his artistic repertoire and enabled an even more complex interplay of color, light, and line. Each image in this book captures a fleeting moment seen through a window in Hockney’s Yorkshire home: from vibrant sunrise and lilac morning sky to peaceful night-time impressions or the sudden arrival of spring. Fascinating details reveal drops on window panes, distant lights in the night, reflections on vases or an abundance of varied window-sill vegetation. In 120 paintings made between 2009 and 2012, selected and arranged by the artist himself, we experience the passage of time through the eyes of David Hockney.

This artist’s book, which first appeared in an exclusive signed edition in 2020, now returns in a wallet-friendly pocket edition. So now is the perfect occasion to heed the advice of the Times critic regarding this book: “If you would like to be given a bouquet by David Hockney, here is your chance.”

David Hockney (né le 9 juillet 1937) est un peintre, dessinateur, graveur, décorateur et photographe anglais. Il émergea au début des années 1960, à l’apogée de la pop britannique, puis partit pour Los Angeles en 1964, où il peignit notamment sa célèbre série de piscines. Outre les genres classiques de la portraiture et du paysage, il n’a cessé de faire évoluer son art, employant des techniques inattendues comme le Polaroïd, la photocopie et le fax, la vidéo numérique, ou en utilisant l’iPhone et l’iPad cille outils pour peindre. Depuis sa première exposition retrospective, qui parcourut l’Europe en 1970 à partir de la Whitechapel Gallery de Londres, il est considéré comme l'un des artistes les plus exposés et populaires de notre époque.