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David Hockney’s ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)’ immersive exhibition, at London’s Lightroom, behind King’s Cross.
“BMW gave me the model of the car and I kept looking at it and looking at it, and then, I must admit, I also looked at the other Art Cars. In the end I thought, probably it would be good to perhaps show the car so you could be looking inside it.”
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BMW Art Car #14
The process leading up to the final work lasted several months, as Hockney not only concerned himself with the external surfaces of the car. He persisted in his idea, and endowed his work with an unusual transparency by allowing the inside of the car to be outwardly visible. Stylized intake manifolds of the engine appear on the bonnet, the driver is visible through the door – and, of course, a dachshund, too.
In his opinion, “Driving and design go hand in hand in a way. Traveling around in a car means experiencing landscapes – which is one of the reasons why I chose green as a color.”
There can be no doubt of Hockney’s love of cars. He enjoys driving immensely, especially when it takes him through the hilly countryside along the winding roads of California, his chosen home.
He is extremely fond of listing to classical music on the road. Clearly a person who understands how to live and enjoy life. His sensitive and equally distinctive perception of the experience of driving has led to a powerful interpretation of that experience.
Hockney’s personal resume on his work for BMW is unusually short, and yet it says all we need to know:
“It was lots of fun.”
“The car has wonderful contours and I followed them,” says David Hockney of the BMW 850CSi he designed. He admits to having playfully “destroyed” the outer surfaces of the car, whilst at the same time he respected its overall design.
BMW Art Cars
20 Artists
50 Years of Innovation
Zoute Grand Prix Car Week 2025
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Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2025
The first foray into the world of mobile applications has led to this self-published app concerning the In Search of Hockney project. Although very basic, this should hopefully provide the building blocks for more advanced designs in the near future. Only available on Android Market.
David Hockney (b.1937) - The second marriage (1963). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Shown at the temporary exhibition "David Hockney 25" at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, April-August 2025.
In 2023 Salts Mill at Saltaire in West Yorkshire displayed David Hockney's biggest picture - a 90.75 metres wide frieze recording the changing seasons in and around his French garden in Normandy.
The work joins together some of the 220 iPad pieces Hockney created during 2020. He comments on the work: "the viewer... will walk past it like the Bayeux tapestry, and I hope they will experience in one picture the year in Normandy".
On display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.
There was an exhibition of some of the work David Hockney undertook while spending the COVID-19 period in Normandy.
For the Luna Luna art amusement park in 1987, British pop artist David Hockney designed the Enchanted Tree, an immersive installation featured a cylindrical chamber of panels painted with geometric interpretations of blue, red, and green trees. . Visitors entered through rounded arches to find another inner cylinder with a lattice of branch-like shapes, creating a magical, layered experience enhanced by classical music from Johann and Joseph Strauss. Hockney’s design reflects his signature use of bright colors and geometric forms, reminiscent of his 1981 stage designs for the Stravinsky Triple Bill at the Metropolitan Opera.
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.