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Woldgate Woods, Winter, 2010

Artist David Hockney (British, born 1937)
Place of OriginEngland
Date2010
Dimensions55 inch monitors
Full size approx. 100 in. x 165 in.
MediumNine digital videos synchronized and presented on nine monitors to comprise a single artwork duration: 49:00 minutes
ClassificationTime-Based Media
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey and Gift of Caroline Ransom Williams, Carl B. Spitzer, Edgar Park, Pauline Steinem, and Mrs. Joseph Roth, by exchange
Object number
2017.14
Not on View
DescriptionNine digital videos synchronized and presented on 9 monitors to comprise a single artwork duration: 49:00 minutes
Label TextPart of a video series portraying the four seasons, Woldgate Woods, Winter, 2010 focuses on the expansive snowy landscape of a forest in East Yorkshire, England, where David Hockney lived as a child. By recording the forest with nine cameras at the same time, Hockney created what he calls a “Cubist movie” of the winter landscape from multiple viewpoints. In keeping with Hockney’s career-long interest in perspective, the digital video is displayed on nine flat screens, allowing viewers to see the changing viewpoints simultaneously in one visual space. Woldgate Woods is an important subject in Hockney's paintings, and this video is part of his continued exploration of time, landscape, and memory related to the site. The video captures moments in a literal moving picture, displaying the sense of changing time and space Hockney seeks to represent in his painted landscapes. The video series also highlights Hockney's progressive use of technology in his works, from drawings made with iPads to multi-media video displays.Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy of the Arts; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; "David Hockney A Bigger Picture" (an edited clip), Jan 21, 2012-Feb 3, 2013.Comparative ReferencesSee also Gayford, Martin, “Nine Screens on Woldgate,” A bigger message: conversations with David Hockney, London, Thames and Hudson, 2016. p. 229-235, repr. (col.) p. 235. See also David Hockney: the Arrival of Spring. New York, Pace, 2017, repr. (col.) p.40-41.

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