Howard Hodgkin
03 Apr - 23 May 2008
HOWARD HODGKIN
Gagosian Gallery, London, will present an exhibition of new paintings by Howard Hodgkin from 3 April – 23 May 2008. It will be the artist's first show of new work in London since 1999 and will be his debut exhibition at Gagosian's spectacular Britannia Street space.
The exhibition will include twenty new paintings completed in 2007 and 2008. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an appreciation of the artist, Chlorophyll for the Spirit, by Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney, and a specially commissioned essay by Booker Prize winning novelist, Alan Hollinghurst.
Born in London in 1932, Hodgkin attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize.
Hodgkin has exhibited internationally for over four decades and his work is included in major public and private collections all over the world. An exhibition of his work Paintings 1975-1995, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, opened in 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and toured to museums in Fort Worth, Düsseldorf and London.
In Spring 2006, a major retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. A considerably expanded version of this exhibition was shown at Tate Britain, London from June to September 2006 and then travelled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid from October 2006 to January 2007.
A survey exhibition of Hodgkin's paintings made in the last ten years opened at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven in February 2007, and travelled to the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge in the summer of that year. In a half paged article entitled "Blasts of Colour, Evoking Memories", Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times described the show as "about as beautiful an exhibition of new paintings as I've seen in a while".
Gagosian Gallery, London, will present an exhibition of new paintings by Howard Hodgkin from 3 April – 23 May 2008. It will be the artist's first show of new work in London since 1999 and will be his debut exhibition at Gagosian's spectacular Britannia Street space.
The exhibition will include twenty new paintings completed in 2007 and 2008. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an appreciation of the artist, Chlorophyll for the Spirit, by Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney, and a specially commissioned essay by Booker Prize winning novelist, Alan Hollinghurst.
Born in London in 1932, Hodgkin attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize.
Hodgkin has exhibited internationally for over four decades and his work is included in major public and private collections all over the world. An exhibition of his work Paintings 1975-1995, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, opened in 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and toured to museums in Fort Worth, Düsseldorf and London.
In Spring 2006, a major retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. A considerably expanded version of this exhibition was shown at Tate Britain, London from June to September 2006 and then travelled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid from October 2006 to January 2007.
A survey exhibition of Hodgkin's paintings made in the last ten years opened at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven in February 2007, and travelled to the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge in the summer of that year. In a half paged article entitled "Blasts of Colour, Evoking Memories", Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times described the show as "about as beautiful an exhibition of new paintings as I've seen in a while".