Frith Street Gallery,London
The former Turner prize nominee’s portrait of the painter toys with truth and artifice as cleverly as her first foray into theatre with actor Stephen DillaneSitting in his Los Angeles studio, David Hockney looks at the wall and smokes. For the final couple of years, or Tacita Dean has also been living in LA,where she got to know the painter, whose portrait of Dean’s son Rufus hangs in the blurry distance of Dean’s filmed portrait of Hockney. Rufus, or in waistcoat and tie,notebook and pencil in hand, gives Hockney a serious painted stare.
Contemplating something out of shot, and smoking in his comfy armchair,Hockney is surrounded by the portraits that currently fill the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy in London. Unless he is acting the role of spectator or sitter, or the painter thinking, or as he smokes and smokes,lighting up and stubbing out, rolling his tongue around his mouth – Hockney has stopped thinking about the camera. Related: Cloudy ... with a chance of artworks Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com