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AZIZ ART <strong>February</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Monir Farmanfarmaian<br />

David Hockney<br />

Mohammed Kazem<br />

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1-Monir Farmanfarmaian<br />

7-Competition<br />

8-Mohammed Kazem<br />

12-David Hockney<br />

21-Competition<br />

Director: <strong>Aziz</strong> Anzabi<br />

Editor : Nafiseh Yaghoubi<br />

Translator : Asra Yaghoubi<br />

Research: Zohreh Nazari<br />

http://www.aziz_anzabi.com


Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian<br />

born 1924 is an Iranian artist who<br />

lives in Tehran, and a collector of<br />

traditional folk art.She has been<br />

noted as one of the most<br />

prominent Iranian artists of the<br />

contemporary period,and she is the<br />

first modern artist to achieve an<br />

artistic practice that weds the<br />

geometric patterns and cut-glass<br />

mosaic techniques of her Iranian<br />

heritage with the rhythms of<br />

modern Western geometric<br />

abstraction.<br />

Education<br />

Born to educated parents in the<br />

religious town of Qazvin in northwestern<br />

Iran, Farmanfarmaian<br />

acquired artistic skills early in<br />

childhood, receiving drawing<br />

lessons from a tutor and studying<br />

postcard depictions of western<br />

art.After studying at the University<br />

of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine <strong>Art</strong><br />

in 1944, she then moved to New<br />

York via steamer boat, when World<br />

War II derailed plans to study art in<br />

Paris, France. In New York, she<br />

studied at Cornell University, at<br />

Parsons The New School for Design,<br />

where she majored in fashion<br />

illustration, and at the <strong>Art</strong> Students<br />

League. As a fashion illustrator, she<br />

held various freelance jobs,<br />

working with magazines such as<br />

Glamour before being hired by the<br />

Bonwit Teller department store,<br />

where she made the acquaintance<br />

of a young Andy Warhol.<br />

Additionally, she learned more<br />

about art through her trips to<br />

museums and through her<br />

exposure to the Eighth Street Club<br />

and New York's avant-garde art<br />

scene, becoming friends with<br />

artists and contemporaries Louise<br />

Nevelson, Jackson Pollock, Willem<br />

de Kooning, Barnett Newman, and<br />

Joan Mitchell. 1


In early 1957, Farmanfarmaian<br />

moved back to Iran.<br />

Inspired by the residing culture,<br />

she discovered “a fascination with<br />

tribal and folk artistic tradition” of<br />

her country’s history, which “led<br />

her to rethink the past and<br />

conceive a new path for her art.”<br />

In the following years, she would<br />

further develop her Persian<br />

inspiration by crafting mirror<br />

mosaics and abstract monotypes,<br />

featuring her work at the Iran<br />

Pavilion in the 1958<br />

Venice Biennale,and holding a<br />

number of exhibitions in places<br />

such as Tehran University (1963),<br />

the Iran-America Society (1973),<br />

and the Jacques Kaplan/Mario<br />

Ravagnan Gallery (1974).<br />

Exile and second return to Iran<br />

In 1979 Farmanfarmaian and her<br />

second husband, Abolbashar,<br />

traveled to New York to visit<br />

family.Around the same time, the<br />

Islamic Revolution began, and so<br />

the Farmanfarmaians found<br />

themselves exiled from Iran, an<br />

exile that would last for over<br />

twenty years.Farmanfarmaian<br />

attempted to reconcile her mirror<br />

mosaics with the limited resources<br />

offered in America, but such lacking<br />

materials and comparatively<br />

inexperienced workers restricted<br />

her work. In the meantime, she<br />

placed larger emphasis on her<br />

other aspects of art, such as<br />

commissions, textile designs, and<br />

drawing.<br />

Since moving back to Iran in 1992,<br />

and later Tehran in 2004,<br />

Farmanfarmaian has reaffirmed her<br />

place among Iran’s art community,<br />

gathering both former and new<br />

employees to help create her<br />

mosaics.Today, she continues to live<br />

and work in Tehran<br />

<strong>Art</strong>work<br />

Aside from her mirror work,<br />

Farmanfarmaian is additionally<br />

known for her paintings, drawings,<br />

textile designs, and monotypes<br />

Mirror Mosaics<br />

Around the 1970s, Farmanfarmaian<br />

visited the Shah Cheragh mosque in<br />

Shiraz, Iran.With the shrine’s “highdomed<br />

hall… covered in tiny<br />

square, triangular, and hexagonal<br />

mirrors,”


similar to many other ancient<br />

Iranian mosques,this event acted<br />

as a turning point in<br />

Farmanfarmaian’s artistic journey,<br />

leading to her interest in mirror<br />

mosaic artwork. According to her<br />

memoir, Farmanfarmaian has<br />

described the experience as<br />

transformative:<br />

“The very space seemed on fire,<br />

the lamps blazing in hundreds of<br />

thousands of reflection... It was a<br />

universe unto itself, architecture<br />

transformed into performance, all<br />

movement and fluid light, all solids<br />

fractured and dissolved in<br />

brilliance in space, in prayer. I was<br />

overwhelmed.<br />

Aided by Iranian craftsman, Hajji<br />

Ostad Mohammad Navid, she<br />

created a number of mosaics and<br />

exhibition pieces by cutting<br />

mirrors and glass paintings into a<br />

multitude of shapes, which she<br />

would later reform into<br />

constructions that evoked aspects<br />

of Sufism and Islamic culture.<br />

“Ayeneh Kari” is the traditional art<br />

of cutting mirrors into small pieces<br />

and slivers, placing them in<br />

decorative shapes over plaster. This<br />

form of Iranian reverse glass and<br />

mirror mosaics is a craft<br />

traditionally passed on from father<br />

to son. Farmanfarmaian, however,<br />

was the first contemporary artist to<br />

reinvent the traditional medium in<br />

a contemporary way.By striving to<br />

mix Iranian influences and the<br />

tradition of mirror artwork with<br />

artistic practices outside of strictly<br />

Iranian culture, “offering a new way<br />

of looking at ancient aesthetic<br />

elements of this land using tools<br />

that are not limited to a particular<br />

geography,” Farmanfarmaian is able<br />

to express a cyclical conception of<br />

spirituality, space, and balance in<br />

her mosaics.<br />

Personal life<br />

Farmanfarmaian married Iranian<br />

artist Manoucher Yektai in 1950.<br />

They divorced in 1953, and in 1957,<br />

she returned to Tehran to marry<br />

lawyer Abolbashar<br />

Farmanfarmaian.In 1991,<br />

Abolbashar died of leukemia. She<br />

has two daughters, Nima and<br />

Zahra.While living in Iran,<br />

Farmanfarmaian was also an avid<br />

collector.


She sought out paintings behind<br />

glass, traditional tribal jewelry and<br />

potteries, and amassed one of the<br />

greatest collections of "coffeehouse<br />

paintings" in the country—<br />

commissioned paintings by folk<br />

artists as coffee-house,<br />

story-telling murals. The vast<br />

majority of her works and her<br />

collections of folk art were<br />

confiscated, sold or destroyed.<br />

Commissioned installations<br />

Major commissioned installations<br />

include work for the Queensland<br />

<strong>Art</strong> Gallery (2009), the Victoria &<br />

Albert Museum's Jameel Collection<br />

(2006), the Dag Hammerskjod<br />

building, New York (1981) and the<br />

Niyavaran Cultural Center (1977–<br />

78), as well as acquisitions by the<br />

Metropolitan Museum of <strong>Art</strong>,[18]<br />

The Tehran Museum of<br />

Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>, and the<br />

Museum of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong><br />

Tokyo.<br />

In popular culture<br />

Farmanfarmaian was named as one<br />

of the BBC's "100 Women" of 2015.<br />

Bibliography<br />

Farmanfarmaian's memoir is titled<br />

A Mirror Garden: A Memoir was coauthored<br />

by Zara Houshmand<br />

(Knopf, 2007). Her work is<br />

documented in the book, Monir<br />

Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian:<br />

Cosmic Geometry (Damiani Editore<br />

& The Third Line, 2011), which<br />

features in-depth interview by Hans<br />

Ulrich Obrist, and critical essays by<br />

Nader Ardalan, Media Farzin and<br />

Eleanor Sims, tributes by<br />

Farmanfarmaian's friends Etel<br />

Adnan, Siah Armajani, caraballofarman,<br />

Golnaz Fathi, Hadi Hazavei,<br />

Susan Hefuna, <strong>Aziz</strong> Isham, Rose<br />

Issa, Faryar Javaherian, Abbas<br />

Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, Donna<br />

Stein and Frank Stella. She is<br />

referenced in an excerpt from The<br />

Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in<br />

Persian Architecture by Nader<br />

Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (1973),<br />

and an annotated timeline of<br />

Farmanfarmaian's life by Negar<br />

Azimi


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Mohammed Kazem<br />

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Mohammed Kazem (born 1969) is<br />

a contemporary Emirati artist<br />

working in Dubai, United Arab<br />

Emirates. He works primarily with<br />

video, sound art, photography,<br />

found objects and performance<br />

art.<br />

Kazem was a conceptual Emirati<br />

artist whose work was recognized<br />

as a group in a 2015 exhibit at the<br />

Salwa Zeidan Gallery.The other<br />

artists in the gallery's group were<br />

Hassan Sharif, Hussain Sharif<br />

(brother of Hassan Sharif),<br />

Abdullah Al Saadi and<br />

Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim.<br />

Mohammed Kazem is a leading<br />

conceptual artist in the UAE<br />

contemporary art scene and is<br />

known for his incorporation of<br />

new media and his sophisticated<br />

formalist language. His interest in<br />

conceptual art and progressive<br />

attitude towards form and context<br />

is especially highlighted by his<br />

ongoing series “Directions.”<br />

Kazem first studied Fine <strong>Art</strong>s<br />

at the Emirates Fine <strong>Art</strong> Society<br />

and subsequently studied music<br />

at the Al Rayat Music Institute of<br />

Dubai and painting at the<br />

Edinburgh College of <strong>Art</strong>. He was a<br />

Painting Instructor at the Dubai <strong>Art</strong><br />

Atelier for ten years. Widely known<br />

through numerous solo and group<br />

exhibitions in the UAE and abroad,<br />

Kazem’s participation includes the<br />

Havana Biennial (2000), Singapore<br />

Biennale (2006), Dhaka Biennial–<br />

Bangladesh (2002), and the Sharjah<br />

Biennale (1993–2007). Most<br />

recently he exhibited at the<br />

University of the <strong>Art</strong>s, Philadelphia<br />

(2010); and at the Mori <strong>Art</strong><br />

Museum, Tokyo (2012). His works<br />

have been collected by private<br />

collectors and institutions such as<br />

Deutsche Bank as well as museums<br />

in Doha, Sharjah, JP Morgan Chase<br />

Bank (USA), and Sittard (Holland).<br />

“By engaging the work of Kazem,<br />

we can witness the urban<br />

modernity of an emerging nation<br />

through the eyes of its individual<br />

artists. In pursuing this initiative we<br />

hope to demonstrate that the<br />

developments we see in the region<br />

today do not come from a void, but<br />

rather evolve from the<br />

contemporary thought and practice<br />

of artists and intellectuals like<br />

Kazem,


whose work has consistently<br />

interrogated the relationship<br />

between the individual and<br />

his/her social, urban, and natural<br />

environments. In this sense, it<br />

manifests as a living artistic<br />

synthesis of a critical debate over<br />

the modernity and the global<br />

reality of the citizen and nationstate,”<br />

elaborated Fadda.<br />

Reem Fadda is currently<br />

working as Associate Curator of<br />

Middle Eastern <strong>Art</strong>–Guggenheim<br />

Abu Dhabi Project at the Solomon<br />

R. Guggenheim Foundation. She is<br />

also a PhD candidate at the History<br />

of <strong>Art</strong> and Visual Studies<br />

Department at Cornell University.<br />

Previously, Fadda was Director of<br />

the Palestinian Association for<br />

Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> (PACA) and<br />

worked as Academic Director<br />

at the International Academy<br />

of <strong>Art</strong> – Palestine, which she<br />

helped found in 2006. She curated<br />

many projects such as Liminal<br />

Spaces featured at PACA, Digital <strong>Art</strong><br />

lab Holon and Galerie Leipzig;<br />

Ramallah Syndrome with<br />

Decolonizing Architecture at the<br />

53rd Venice Biennale,<br />

Tarjama/Translation at the Queens<br />

Museum & Herbert E. Johnson<br />

Museum in New York and the 3rd<br />

RIWAQ Biennale, which she cocurated<br />

with Charles Esche in<br />

Ramallah.<br />

The National Pavilion of the United<br />

Arab Emirates is initiated and<br />

supported by His Excellency Abdul<br />

Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais,<br />

UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and<br />

Community Development. The<br />

National Pavilion of the UAE<br />

continues to be developed and<br />

presented under the leadership of<br />

its Commissioner, Dr. Lamees<br />

Hamdan, a leader in the art and<br />

culture scene in the UAE and<br />

member of the Board of Directors<br />

of the Dubai Culture and <strong>Art</strong>s<br />

Authority.


Davd Hockney<br />

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David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937)<br />

is an English painter, draughtsman,<br />

printmaker, stage designer and<br />

photographer. An important<br />

contributor to the pop art<br />

movement of the 1960s, he is<br />

considered one of the most<br />

influential British artists of<br />

the 20th century.<br />

Hockney has a home and studio in<br />

Kensington, London and two<br />

residences in California, where he<br />

has lived on and off for over 30<br />

years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los<br />

Angeles, and an office and<br />

archives on Santa Monica<br />

Boulevard in<br />

West Hollywood. For many years<br />

he also kept a home in Bridlington,<br />

East Riding of Yorkshire, until this<br />

was sold in 2015.<br />

Personal life<br />

Hockney was born in Bradford,<br />

England, to Laura and Kenneth<br />

Hockney (a conscientious objector<br />

in the Second World War), the<br />

fourth of five children.He was<br />

educated at Wellington Primary<br />

School, Bradford Grammar School,<br />

Bradford College of <strong>Art</strong> (where his<br />

teachers included Frank Lisle and<br />

his fellow students included<br />

Norman Stevens, David Oxtoby and<br />

John Loker)[citation needed] and<br />

the Royal College of <strong>Art</strong> in London,<br />

where he met R. B. Kitaj. While<br />

there, Hockney said he felt at home<br />

and took pride in his work. At the<br />

Royal College of <strong>Art</strong>, Hockney<br />

featured in the exhibition Young<br />

Contemporaries—alongside Peter<br />

Blake—that announced the arrival<br />

of British Pop art. He was<br />

associated with the movement, but<br />

his early works display expressionist<br />

elements, similar to some works by<br />

Francis Bacon. When the RCA said it<br />

would not let him graduate in 1962,<br />

Hockney drew the sketch The<br />

Diploma in protest. He had refused<br />

to write an essay required for the<br />

final examination, saying he should<br />

be assessed solely on his artworks.<br />

Recognising his talent and growing<br />

reputation, the RCA changed its<br />

regulations and awarded the<br />

diploma.<br />

A visit to California, where he<br />

subsequently lived for many years,<br />

inspired him to make a series of<br />

paintings of swimming pools in the<br />

comparatively new acrylic medium<br />

rendered in a highly realistic style<br />

using vibrant colours.


The artist moved to Los Angeles in<br />

1964, returned to London in 1968,<br />

and from 1973 to 1975 lived in<br />

Paris. In 1974 he began a decadelong<br />

personal relationship with<br />

Gregory Evans who moved with<br />

him to the US in 1976 and as of<br />

<strong>2017</strong> remains a business partner.<br />

In 1978 he rented the canyon<br />

house in which he lived when he<br />

moved to Los Angeles, and later<br />

bought and expanded it to include<br />

his studio.He also owned a 1,643-<br />

square-foot beach house at 21039<br />

Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu,<br />

which he sold in 1999 for around<br />

$1.5 million.<br />

Hockney is openlygay,and unlike<br />

Andy Warhol, whom he<br />

befriended, he openly explored<br />

the nature of gay love in his<br />

portraiture. Sometimes, as in We<br />

Two Boys Together Clinging (1961),<br />

named after a poem by Walt<br />

Whitman, the works refer to his<br />

love for men. Already in 1963, he<br />

painted two men together in the<br />

painting Domestic Scene, Los<br />

Angeles, one showering while the<br />

other washes his back.In summer<br />

1966, while teaching at UCLA he<br />

met Peter Schlesinger, an art<br />

student who posed for paintings<br />

and drawings, and with whom he<br />

was romantically involved.<br />

On the morning of 18 March 2013,<br />

Hockney's 23-year-old assistant,<br />

Dominic Elliott, died as a result of<br />

drinking drain cleaner at Hockney's<br />

Bridlington studio; he had also<br />

earlier drunk alcohol and taken<br />

cocaine, ecstasy and temazepam.<br />

Elliott was a first- and second-team<br />

player for Bridlington rugby club. It<br />

was reported that Hockney's<br />

partner drove Elliott to<br />

Scarborough General Hospital<br />

where he later died. The inquest<br />

returned a verdict of death by<br />

misadventure and Hockney was<br />

never implicated.<br />

In November 2015 Hockney sold his<br />

house in Bridlington, a fivebedroomed<br />

former guesthouse, for<br />

£625,000, cutting all his remaining<br />

ties with the town.


He retains a studio in London<br />

and a house in Malibu, California.<br />

Hockney has smoked cigarettes<br />

for over 60 years but has been<br />

teetotal since 1990 when he had a<br />

heart-attack. He holds a California<br />

Medical Marijuana Verification<br />

Card, which enables him to buy<br />

cannabis for medical purposes. He<br />

has used hearing aids since 1979,<br />

but realised he was going<br />

deaf long before that. He swims<br />

for half an hour each day and can<br />

stand for six hours at the easel.<br />

Work<br />

Hockney made prints, portraits of<br />

friends, and stage designs for the<br />

Royal Court Theatre,<br />

Glyndebourne, La Scala and the<br />

Metropolitan Opera in New York<br />

City.<br />

Born with synaesthesia, he sees<br />

synesthetic colours in response to<br />

musical stimuli.This does not show<br />

up in his painting<br />

or photography artwork, but is a<br />

common underlying principle in<br />

his designs for stage sets for ballet<br />

and opera—where he bases<br />

background colours and lighting on<br />

the colours he sees while listening<br />

to the piece's music.<br />

Portraits<br />

Hockney painted portraits at<br />

different periods in his career. From<br />

1968, and for the next few years he<br />

painted friends, lovers, and<br />

relatives just under lifesize and in<br />

pictures that depicted good<br />

likenesses of his subjects.<br />

Hockney's own presence is often<br />

implied, since the lines of<br />

perspective converge to suggest the<br />

artist's point of view.Hockney has<br />

repeatedly returned to the same<br />

subjects – his parents, artist Mo<br />

McDermott (Mo McDermott,<br />

1976), various writers he has<br />

known, fashion designers Celia<br />

Birtwell and Ossie Clark (Mr and<br />

Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970–71),<br />

curator Henry Geldzahler, art dealer<br />

Nicholas Wilder, George Lawson<br />

and his ballet dancer lover, Wayne<br />

Sleep.


On arrival in California, Hockney<br />

changed from oil to acrylic paint,<br />

applying it as smooth flat and<br />

brilliant colour. In 1965, the print<br />

workshop Gemini G.E.L.<br />

approached him to create a series<br />

of lithographs with a Los Angeles<br />

theme. Hockney responded by<br />

creating a ready-made art<br />

collection.<br />

The "joiners"<br />

In the early 1980s, Hockney began<br />

to produce photo collages, which<br />

he called "joiners", first using<br />

Polaroid prints and subsequently<br />

35mm, commercially processed<br />

colour prints. Using Polaroid snaps<br />

or photolab-prints of a single<br />

subject, Hockney arranged a<br />

patchwork to make a composite<br />

image. An early photomontage<br />

was of his mother. Because the<br />

photographs are taken from<br />

different perspectives and at<br />

slightly different times, the result<br />

is work that has an affinity with<br />

Cubism, one of Hockney's major<br />

aims—discussing the way human<br />

vision works. Some pieces are<br />

landscapes, such as Pearblossom<br />

Highway others portraits, such as<br />

Kasmin 1982, and My Mother,<br />

Bolton Abbey, 1982.<br />

Creation of the "joiners" occurred<br />

accidentally. He noticed in the late<br />

sixties that photographers were<br />

using cameras with wide-angle<br />

lenses. He did not like these<br />

photographs because they looked<br />

somewhat distorted. While working<br />

on a painting of a living room and<br />

terrace in Los Angeles, he took<br />

Polaroid shots of the living room<br />

and glued them together, not<br />

intending for them to be a<br />

composition on their own. On<br />

looking at the final composition, he<br />

realised it created a narrative, as if<br />

the viewer moved through the<br />

room. He began to work more with<br />

photography after this discovery<br />

and stopped painting for a while to<br />

exclusively pursue this new<br />

technique. Frustrated with the<br />

limitations of photography and its<br />

'one eyed' approach, however, he<br />

returned to painting.<br />

Later work<br />

In 1976, at Atelier Crommelynck,<br />

Hockney created a portfolio of 20<br />

etchings, The Blue Guitar: Etchings<br />

By David Hockney Who Was<br />

Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who<br />

Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso.


The etchings refer to themes in a<br />

poem by Wallace Stevens, "The<br />

Man with the Blue Guitar". It was<br />

published by Petersburg Press in<br />

October 1977. That year,<br />

Petersburg also published a book,<br />

in which the images were<br />

accompanied by the poem's text.<br />

Hockney was commissioned to<br />

design the cover and pages for the<br />

December 1985 issue of the<br />

French edition of Vogue.<br />

Consistent with his interest in<br />

cubism and admiration for Pablo<br />

Picasso, Hockney chose to paint<br />

Celia Birtwell (who appears in<br />

several of his works) from<br />

different views, as if the eye had<br />

scanned<br />

her face diagonally.<br />

In December 1985, Hockney used<br />

the Quantel Paintbox, a computer<br />

program that allowed the artist to<br />

sketch directly onto the screen.<br />

Using the program was similar to<br />

drawing on the PET film for prints,<br />

with which he had much<br />

experience. The resulting work<br />

was featured in a BBC series that<br />

profiled a number of artists.<br />

His artwork was used on the cover<br />

of the 1989 British Telecom<br />

telephone directory for Bradford.<br />

Hockney returned more frequently<br />

to Yorkshire in the 1990s, usually<br />

every three months, to visit his<br />

mother who died in 1999. He rarely<br />

stayed for more than two weeks<br />

until 1997, when his friend<br />

Jonathan Silver who was terminally<br />

ill encouraged him to capture the<br />

local surroundings. He did this at<br />

first with paintings based on<br />

memory, some from his boyhood.<br />

Hockney returned to Yorkshire for<br />

longer and longer stays, and by<br />

2005 was painting the countryside<br />

en plein air.He set up residence and<br />

an immense redbrick seaside<br />

studio, a converted industrial<br />

workspace, in the seaside town of<br />

Bridlington, about 75 miles from<br />

where he was born. The oil<br />

paintings he produced after 2005<br />

were influenced by his intensive<br />

studies in watercolour (for over a<br />

year in 2003–2004). He created<br />

paintings made of multiple smaller<br />

canvases—nine, 15 or more—<br />

placed together. To help him<br />

visualise work at that scale, he used<br />

digital photographic reproductions;<br />

each day's work was photographed,<br />

and Hockney generally took a<br />

photographic print home.


In June 2007, Hockney's largest<br />

painting, Bigger Trees Near Warter,<br />

which measures 15 feet by 40 feet,<br />

was hung in the Royal Academy's<br />

largest gallery in its annual<br />

Summer Exhibition.This work "is a<br />

monumental-scale view of a<br />

coppice in Hockney's native<br />

Yorkshire, between Bridlington<br />

and York. It was painted on 50<br />

individual canvases, mostly<br />

working in situ, over five weeks<br />

last winter." In 2008, he donated<br />

it to the Tate Gallery in London,<br />

saying: "I thought if I'm going to<br />

give something to the Tate I want<br />

to<br />

give them something really good.<br />

It's going to be here for a while. I<br />

don't want to give things I'm not<br />

too proud of ... I thought this was a<br />

good painting because it's of<br />

England ... it seems like a good<br />

thing to do."The painting was the<br />

subject of a BBC1 Imagine film<br />

documentary by Bruno Wollheim<br />

called David Hockney: A Bigger<br />

Picture' (2009) which followed<br />

Hockney as he worked outdoors<br />

over the preceding two years.<br />

Since 2009, Hockney has painted<br />

hundreds of portraits, still lifes<br />

and landscapes using the Brushes<br />

iPhone and iPad application, often<br />

sending them to his friends.<br />

His show Fleurs fraîches (Fresh<br />

flowers) was held at La Fondation<br />

Pierre Bergé in Paris. A Fresh-<br />

Flowers exhibit opened in 2011 at<br />

the Royal Ontario Museum in<br />

Toronto, featuring more than 100<br />

of his drawings on 25 iPads and 20<br />

iPods. In late 2011, Hockney<br />

revisited California to paint<br />

Yosemite National Park on his<br />

iPad.For the season 2012–2013 in<br />

the Vienna State Opera he<br />

designed, on his iPad, a large scale<br />

picture (176 sqm) as part of the<br />

exhibition series Safety Curtain,<br />

conceived by museum in progress.<br />

In September 2016 Hockney<br />

announced the issue of a new book<br />

David Hockney: A Bigger Book,<br />

scheduled to be published in<br />

October by Benedikt Taschen and<br />

costing £1,750 (£3,500 with an<br />

added loose print). The book,<br />

weighing almost 70lbs, had gone<br />

through 19 proof stages.He<br />

unveiled the book at the Frankfurt<br />

Book Fair where he was the<br />

keynote speaker at the opening<br />

press conference.


Set designs<br />

Hockney's first opera designs, for<br />

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at<br />

the Glyndebourne Festival Opera<br />

in England in 1975 and The Magic<br />

Flute (1978) were painted drops.In<br />

1981, he agreed to design sets and<br />

costumes for three 20th-century<br />

French works at the Metropolitan<br />

Opera House with the title Parade.<br />

The works were Parade, a ballet<br />

with music by Erik Satie; Les<br />

mamelles de Tirésias, an opera<br />

with libretto by Guillaume<br />

Apollinaire and music by Francis<br />

Poulenc, and L'enfant et les<br />

sortilèges, an opera with libretto<br />

by Colette and music by Maurice<br />

Ravel.The set for L'enfant et les<br />

sortilèges is a permanent<br />

installation at the Spalding House<br />

branch of the Honolulu Museum of<br />

<strong>Art</strong>. He designed sets for Puccini's<br />

Turandot in 1991 at the Chicago<br />

Lyric Opera and a Richard Strauss<br />

Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1992 at<br />

the Royal Opera House in<br />

London.In 1994, he designed<br />

costumes and scenery for twelve<br />

opera arias for the TV broadcast of<br />

Plácido Domingo's Operalia in<br />

Mexico City. Technical advances<br />

allowed him to become increasingly<br />

complex in model-making. At his<br />

studio he had a proscenium<br />

opening 6 feet (1.8 m) by 4 feet (1.2<br />

m) in which he built sets in 1:8<br />

scale. He also used a computerised<br />

setup that let him punch in and<br />

program lighting cues at will and<br />

synchronise them to a soundtrack<br />

of the music


WIDE OPEN 8 - Call for <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />

Submission Deadline: Early Bird <strong>February</strong> 19, <strong>2017</strong> or Final Application Deadline March 5, <strong>2017</strong><br />

We are excited to announce our eighth annual national juried art show, Wide Open 8, opening May<br />

13, <strong>2017</strong>. And again this year, we are privileged to have another of NY's art elite as our juror, the<br />

Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>'s Cara Manes, Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and<br />

Sculpture. With her guidance and selections, we look forward to another spectacular show.<br />

Show Details<br />

WIDE OPEN 8: The broad theme of "Wide Open 8" encompasses all the possibilities of knowledge<br />

and freedom and love - wide open spaces...arms wide open...eyes wide open - but as with all<br />

things, there is the inevitable opposite - wide open to attack...corruption...failure. What kind of<br />

fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show looks to explore the idea of "wide<br />

open" in all the hidden niches of our collective psyche.<br />

Eligibility<br />

This call for submission is open to all residents of the U.S. and its Territories 18 years of age or<br />

older. This is a juried exhibition for artists working in all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D<br />

media, including film/video when part of an installation. All artwork must be original in concept,<br />

design and execution. Note: Crafts, kit work or reproductions of original works in other media (such<br />

as giclee reproductions of oil paintings), unless used as part of a mixed media work, will not be<br />

considered.<br />

Submission & Exhibition Dates<br />

Submission Deadline: Early Bird <strong>February</strong> 19 or Final Application Deadline March 5, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />

Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 13 - June 18, <strong>2017</strong> weekends 1-6P.M.<br />

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 13, <strong>2017</strong> from 1-6P.M.<br />

Juror<br />

Cara Manes is Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of<br />

Modern <strong>Art</strong>, where she works extensively on the ongoing displays in the collection galleries, as well<br />

as temporary exhibitions and special installations. Most recently she organized Projects104: Nástio<br />

Mosquito (2016) and the collection exhibition Take an Object (2015). Alongside museum<br />

colleagues, she has contributed to numerous other exhibitions, including From the Collection: The<br />

1960s (2016), Ellsworth Kelly: The Chatham Series (2013), <strong>Art</strong>ist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly (2012),<br />

and Cy Twombly: Sculpture (2011). Manes' writing has appeared in a variety of publications,<br />

including Hans Arp and the United States (Stiftung Arp, 2016) and Films and Videos by Robert<br />

Morris (Museu de <strong>Art</strong>e Contemporanea de Serralves, 2011). She holds degrees from Wellesley<br />

College and The City University of New York.<br />

$3000 in Cash Awards<br />

Bonus Offer<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists accepted into Wide Open 8 can also send one additional work that will be exhibited in our<br />

Affordable <strong>Art</strong> area. All works must be smaller than 16" x 20" (including frame, if framed) and must<br />

be priced for sale at $500 or under.<br />

Judging<br />

All judging to enter this competition will be on-line. Entries that differ significantly from their<br />

digital images may be rejected. Decision of the judges is final.<br />

For More Information: http://bwac.org/2016/11/wide-open-8/<br />

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