The Hockney Interviews compiles ten conversations between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and David Hockney across sixteen years, forming the most sustained and intimate record of Hockney's thinking on painting, technology, nature, and creative life available in print.
About This Book
From iPad paintings to immersive audiovisual installations, David Hockney's embrace of digital media in the latter part of his career has been as surprising as it has been generative. These ten conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist — conducted between 2008 and 2024 — chart that evolution with directness and candour. Hockney speaks on his preoccupation with painting nature, his friendships with Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, his relationship with new technologies, and his unfiltered views on everyday life. Fully illustrated with iconic works from across his career alongside rarely seen portraits spanning from age eighteen to the present, this is an essential document of one of contemporary art's most prolific and uncompromising minds.
Key Features
- 68 pages of illustrated conversations spanning Hockney's digital and painterly practice, with rarely seen portraits from age eighteen to the present
- Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine galleries
- Ten interviews conducted between 2008 and 2024
- Published by HENI, 2024
What You'll Discover
- Hockney's account of his own shift into digital media — from iPad paintings to immersive audiovisual shows — in his own words
- Reflections on his friendships with Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, and what those relationships meant to his practice
- His sustained preoccupation with painting nature and how that subject has anchored his work across decades and mediums
- Obrist's method of long-form artistic conversation as a form of portraiture, accumulated across sixteen years of access
About the Author
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of Serpentine galleries in London and one of the most prominent figures in contemporary curatorial practice. He is known internationally for his marathon interview projects, through which he has built an unparalleled archive of conversations with leading artists, architects, and thinkers.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 68
- Dimensions: 237 × 180 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781911736134
- Publisher: HENI
- Publication Date: 2024
Perfect For: Collectors, painters, curators, and readers with a serious interest in David Hockney, contemporary art practice, or the role of digital media in transforming an established artist's work.