“David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting” at Serpentine Galleries

The seminal British artist David Hockney will present his celebrated 90-meter-long frieze painting “A Year in Normandie” in London for the first t.mes . Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, Hockney’s monumental depiction of Normandy, where the artist has lived since 2019, goes on view during a significant moment for the medieval work, which leaves France for its first journey to England in 900 years, arriving at the British Museum in September. The digital work, made on the artist’s iPad during the pandemic, joins new still lifes and portraits of his close circle created specifically for Serpentine. Accompanying the exhibition, Serpentine will present a large-scale printed mural by Hockney in the garden, highlighting a scene from the spring cycle of “A Year in Normandie.”

^{David Hockney, “A Year in Normandie” (detail), 2020-21. © David Hockney}