London’s Serpentine Gallery is mounting a show of David Hockney next Spring. We have been told to expect a bumper exhibition of works, in Hockney’s characteristically vivid, eye-grabbing, high-saturation images (created mostly on an iPad). BUT IF YOU CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THEN…..
Annely Juda Fine Art is having inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with their own comprehensive selection of works by David Hockney. Now open, the exhibition will debut a series of new paintings alongside the first full presentation in the UK of Hockney’s “The Moon Room”.
Its actually Hockney’s fourteenth exhibition at the gallery, and following his celebrated exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris this summer, this show will debut never-seen-before paintings completed in his London studio over the last six months, underpinning Hockney’s unwavering commitment to and vigour for the act of painting and cementing him as perhaps the most iconic artist of today.
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These very, very, very new paintings mark the most developed stage yet in Hockney’s dedication to ‘reverse perspective’ in paint. For decades, Hockney has observed that traditional linear perspective in art and photography doesn’t reflect how humans actually see: we have peripheral vision, we move and we constantly generate multiple viewpoints. Viewing is therefore not static, but dynamic and experiential. It’s not an inversion of perspective that interests Hockney, but an expansion of the possibilities of representation. In these recent canvases, which depict colourful interior scenes, he disrupts planar perspective and engineers multiple vanishing points in a single picture, bringing us closer to the lived experience of perception.
Now in his eighties, Hockney continues to create new works in all media with his unwavering desire to continually challenge conventions of perspective in art and how we truly ‘see’. Hence in March 2026, Hockney will present A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry at the Serpentine, London.
| Annely Juda Gallery’s new premises at 16 Hanover Square, London, is a Grade II listed Georgian building with two large floors of exhibition space with an exceptional glass-domed ceiling. |
