FRANKFURT – British painter, photographer, and multimedia artist David Hockney will appear as a keynote speaker at the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair will take place at 11.00 am on 18 October 2016, according to a press release issued by the organizing committee.
As part of THE ARTS+ programme, Hockney will present A Bigger Book, the new 500-page, large-format SUMO book, published by TASCHEN. THE ARTS+ is a new trade fair for content and digital business models in the cultural and creative sector. TASCHEN is one of the founding partners of THE ARTS+.
TASCHEN is one of the founding partners of THE ARTS+.
Born in Yorkshire in 1937, David Hockney is considered one of the most important artists of our age. He has enjoyed a career of artistic creation lasting more than 60 years.
Even today, the 79-year-old still shows a great desire to experiment and a willingness to include technical innovation in his work in unexpected ways. In his search for new forms to represent the world around us he has used photocopiers and fax machines, and has integrated polaroids and photo collages into his painting. His inventive zeal remains undiminished.
For his exhibition – A Bigger Picture (2012) – the artist produced a cycle of large-format images, with the help of an iPad. He has also produced unique landscapes projected onto video walls, filming with nine cameras mounted on a four-wheel-drive truck, each scene shot on-the-move from subtly different angles.
“David Hockney is one of the most multifaceted artists of the present day,” says Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair. “His openness to new media and his application of digital techniques, which is frankly genius, have made him into one of the pioneers of contemporary art.
“It also means he’s an ideal representative of what we want to showcase at THE ARTS+: the synthesis of the digital and the aesthetic in art.”
