Lightroom, London's new artist home: David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Art / Lifestyle Calendar, December 2, 2022

Opening: Lightroom, London's new home for spectacular artist-directed shows.

First catch: David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). Inaugural show by London Theatre Company and 59 Productions. Visitors can expect a new concept of immersive shows. Tickets are available now.

January 25 - April 23, 2023

Installation of David Hockney’s "Gregory Swimming Los Angeles March 31st 1982" Composite polaroid, 27 3/4 x 51 1/4", © David Hockney

Installation of David Hockney’s "A Bigger Grand Canyon" 1998

Oil on 60 canvases, 81 1/2 x 293" overall, © David Hockney

Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Installation of David Hockney's "The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)"

Oil on 32 canvases (36 x 48" each), 144 x 384" overall, © David Hockney

Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle

Dusseldorf, Dec. 2, 2022: One of the world's best-known living artists has helped create the opening show for Lightroom - a four-story space in Kings Cross, London's most exciting and creative neighborhood. According to the organizers, it features a new type of digital projection and audio technology. Opening on Jan. 25, 2023, "Lightroom" is set to be London's new home for spectacular artist-led shows.

For admirers of David Hockney's art, as well as everyone else, the show should be a spectacular event, with the addition of new elements previously unseen in immersive shows. Hockney himself has a fascination with new technologies and helped design the show himself. On display will be his iconic works as well as newly created works.

Six chapters with David Hockney's art

The immersive experience consists of six chapters and lasts 50 minutes, with specially composed music by Nico Muhly and commentary by the artist himself. They are fascinating stories, including about his audiovisual Wagnerian journey, the passage of time in his Polaroid collages, the joy of spring on his iPad, and how he tells visitors why only color can properly reflect the grandeur of the Grand Canyon.

"The world is very, very beautiful when you look at it, but most people don't look very closely. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, but they don't really look at things very well or very hard. I do."

David Hockney, from the soundtrack to 'Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)'

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Lightroom

Lewis Cubitt Square, London, N1C 4DY

January 25 - April 23, 2023

Tickets on sale now; £25 for adults and from £15 for students

Where:

lightroom.uk

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Lightroom is a joint venture between 59 Productions and the London Theatre Company, backed by a high-profile group of investors, including Access Entertainment, and Michael Sherwood, formerly of Goldman Sachs. There are high ambitions behind Lightroom, as they aim to make it "a new home for the world's great artistic innovators."

Lightroom External View - Installation of David Hockney’s "A Bigger Grand Canyon" 1998

David Hockney viewing the model box containing "August 2021, Landscape with Shadows" Twelve iPad paintings comprising a single work © David Hockney. Photo credit: Mark Grimmer

Installation of David Hockney’s "Gregory Swimming Los Angeles March 31st 1982"

Composite polaroid, 27 3/4 x 51 1/4", © David Hockney

Art / Lifestyle Calendar, 2. Dezember 2022

Opening: Lightroom, Londons neues Zuhause für spektakuläre, von Künstlern geleitete Shows.

Lightroom zeigt: David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). Eröffnungsshow der London Theatre Company und 59 Productions. Die Besucher erwartet ein neues Konzept von immersiven Shows, da es der Künstler unmittelbar mitbestimmt hat. Tickets sind ab jetzt erhältlich

25. Januar - 23. April 23, 2023

Düsseldorf, 1. Dezember 2022: Einer der weltweit bekanntesten lebenden Künstler hat die Eröffnungsshow für Lightroom mitgestaltet - einen vier Stockwerke hohen Raum in Kings Cross, dem aufregendsten und kreativsten Viertel Londons. Den Veranstaltern zufolge, ist er mit einer neuartigen digitalen Projektions- und Audiotechnologie ausgestattet. Am 25. Januar 2023 wird "Lightroom" eröffnet und er soll Londons neues Zuhause für spektakuläre, von Künstlern geleitete Shows sein.

Für Bewunderer der Kunst Hockneys, aber auch für alle anderen, dürfte die Show eine spektakuläres Ereignis werden, denn es wurden neue, in immersiven Shows bislang ungesehen Elemente eingefügt. Hockney selbst hat eine Faszination für neue Technologien und gestaltete die Show selbst mit. Gezeigt werden neben seinen ikonischen Werken auch neu geschaffene Arbeiten.

Das immersive Erlebnis besteht aus sechs Kapiteln und dauert 50 Minuten, mit einer speziell komponierten Musik von Nico Muhly und einem Kommentar des Künstlers selbst. Es sind faszinierende Geschichten, auch über seine audiovisuelle Wagner-Fahrt, über das Vergehen der Zeit in seinen Polaroid-Collagen, die Freude des Frühlings auf seinem iPad und wie er dem Besucher erzählt, warum nur Farbe die Größe des Grand Canyon richtig wiedergeben kann.

"Die Welt ist sehr, sehr schön, wenn man sie betrachtet, aber die meisten Menschen sehen nicht sehr genau hin. Sie scannen den Boden vor sich ab, damit sie gehen können, aber sie schauen sich die Dinge nicht wirklich gut und intensiv an. Ich schon."

David Hockney, aus dem Soundtrack zu 'Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)'

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Lightroom

Lewis Cubitt Square, London, N1C 4DY

25. Januar bis zum 23. April 2023

Karten jetzt im Vorverkauf; 25 £ für Erwachsene und ab 15 £ für Studenten

Wo:

lightroom.uk

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Lightroom ist ein Joint Venture zwischen 59 Productions und der London Theatre Company, hinter dem eine hochrangige Investorengruppe steht, darunter Access Entertainment, und Michael Sherwood, ehemals Goldman Sachs. Hinter dem Lightroom stehen hohe Ambitionen, denn sie sie möchten ihn zu „einem neuen Zuhause für die großen künstlerischen Innovatoren der Welt“ machen.

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