Скачать или смотреть David Hockney - Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos

De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Hockney, renowned for his use of evolving technologies as well as traditional media, has become increasingly interested in chronicling the passage of time. Back in his native England, after living in Southern California for 25 years, Hockney rediscovered the landscapes of Woldgate Woods in East Yorkshire and set out to document its changing seasons. In 2010 and 2011 he made digital videos of these woods, depicting the same forest scene in winter, spring, summer, and fall.

In Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, Hockney used multiple cameras simultaneously to capture a single scene, which he then displays across eighteen flat-screen monitors. The lenses of the cameras point in different directions, resulting in multiple perspectives that occasionally overlap and are out of sync, thus creating what Hockney calls a “Cubist movie.” These changing viewpoints in Hockney’s digital video installation evoke his photo collages from three decades earlier.