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Gagosian Gallery, 2013
Date: 15-03-2013 – 04-05-2013
Howard Hodgkin New Paintings
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
—Howard Hodgkin
Gagosian Rome is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin. This is his first exhibition in Rome since he presented "Seven Small Paintings" at the British School in 1992.
In exploring the very nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all traits of his distinctive signature. With their maximalist gestures and saturated colors, his more intimately scaled paintings appear jewel-like, while larger works are opulent and theatrical. With incorporated frames and painted wooden supports, they operate as both objects and images.
Embracing spontaneity and directness in equal measure to the processes of reflection and capitulation, it may take a year for Hodgkin to prepare to execute a single brushstroke. The seemingly casual, urgent quality of his paintings belies the fact that most of them have been worked on for two or three years. More than ever they convey the relationship between hand, eye, and memory that drives their process, visual structure, and emotional temperature.
In each painting, Hodgkin's subject is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, remaining resistant to interpretation, allusive and fragmentary. Vibrant traces of experience inspired by everyday memories, places, and encounters are called by name in titles such as the sultry Red Sky at Night (2001–11) and its breezy inverse Seaside (2011–12); the edible tones of Toffee (2012); the dazzling chromatic contrast of Red Flowers (2011–12), and the ominous sweep of Dark Cloud (2009–11). By intimating the world beyond the confines of the frame, he creates works that are at once composed, autonomous wholes and synecdoches of the greater aesthetic reality that lies beyond their limits.
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
—Howard Hodgkin
Gagosian Rome is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin. This is his first exhibition in Rome since he presented "Seven Small Paintings" at the British School in 1992.
In exploring the very nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all traits of his distinctive signature. With their maximalist gestures and saturated colors, his more intimately scaled paintings appear jewel-like, while larger works are opulent and theatrical. With incorporated frames and painted wooden supports, they operate as both objects and images.
Embracing spontaneity and directness in equal measure to the processes of reflection and capitulation, it may take a year for Hodgkin to prepare to execute a single brushstroke. The seemingly casual, urgent quality of his paintings belies the fact that most of them have been worked on for two or three years. More than ever they convey the relationship between hand, eye, and memory that drives their process, visual structure, and emotional temperature.
In each painting, Hodgkin's subject is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, remaining resistant to interpretation, allusive and fragmentary. Vibrant traces of experience inspired by everyday memories, places, and encounters are called by name in titles such as the sultry Red Sky at Night (2001–11) and its breezy inverse Seaside (2011–12); the edible tones of Toffee (2012); the dazzling chromatic contrast of Red Flowers (2011–12), and the ominous sweep of Dark Cloud (2009–11). By intimating the world beyond the confines of the frame, he creates works that are at once composed, autonomous wholes and synecdoches of the greater aesthetic reality that lies beyond their limits.
Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave, 2011
New York, USA
Date: 03-11-2011 – 23-12-2011
Howard Hodgkin: New Paintings 2007-2011
Peder Lund Gallery, 2011
Oslo, Norway
Date: 22-10-2011 – 26-11-2011
Filipstadveien 5N-0250 Oslo
Te. +47 22 01 55 55
mail@pederlund.no
10 paintings are shown in a high ceilinged white cube: Snowfall, Croissant, An Open Door, Rain on the Pane, Collage (above),
Heat and Dust, Arabian Sea, In the Train, Deep Blue Sea and Snow Cloud.
This is the first exhibition of Hodgkin's work in Scandinavia since 1987, when the British Council toured some of his prints
(1977-1983) to the Ibsenhuset, Skien and the Onstad Art Centre, Henie. The catalogue takes the form of a hardback book,
published by Skira, with an essay by Åsmund Thorkildsen ('Howard Hodgkin: the Thinking Painter of Embodied Memories')
that covers all of Hodgkin's paintings from 1947 to 2011, and is illustrated by over 50 colour pictures.
The exhibition was reviewed by Arve Rød in on 22 October 2011, 'Velporsjonert Malerkamp'.The gallery is open on Saturdays
12-1600 and by appointment.
San Diego Museum of Art, 2011
San Diego, California
Date: 28-01-2011 – 01-05-2011
The exhibition that began in Modern Art Oxford in June 2010 and was seen at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands, ended its tour in California. The works included Hotplate, which the museum has bought (above).
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010
Tilburg, the Netherlands
Date: 20-09-2010 – 26-01-2011
This exhibition focuses on Howard Hodgkin’s paintings of places and moments in time as subjective expressions of visual sensation. The exhibition spans ten years of the artist’s career and includes many paintings not previously seen by a broader public, including a powerful body of new work developing out of the Home, Home On the Range series of 2008. Together, they highlight the physical as well as emotional charge of Hodgkin’s art through his use of scale, sensitivity to light and his ability to create painterly equivalents of depth and atmosphere.
Andres Thalmann Galerie, 2010
Zurich, Switzlerland
Date: 26-08-2010 – 26-09-2010
Recent Prints, including As Time Goes By (blue), Flowering Palm, Palm and Window, Indian Tree, For Jack, Cigarette, Home, Tears, Idle Tears, You Again, Two's Company (a), Into the Woods and Monsoon.
galerie andresthalmann
Carina Andres Thalmann |
Talstrasse 66, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland |
Tel. 41 44 210 20 01 |
Fax 41 44 210 20 02 |
Mobile 41 79 204 63 63 |
andres@andresthalmann.com |
galerie andresthalmann
Carina Andres Thalmann |
Talstrasse 66, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland |
Tel. 41 44 210 20 01 |
Fax 41 44 210 20 02 |
Mobile 41 79 204 63 63 |
andres@andresthalmann.com |
Metropolitan Museum, 2010
New York
Date: 13-07-2010 – 16-11-2010
Howard Hodgkin: Prints from the Collection, 1987-2002
Modern Art Oxford, 2010
Oxford
Date: 23-06-2010 – 04-09-2010
Time and Place: 25 Paintings 2001-2010.
The exhibition travelled to the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2.10.2010-16.1.2011) and to the San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA in February 2011.
The large gallery on the first floor reunited the four paintings, Home, Home on the Range, Where the Deer and the Antelope Roam, Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word and AndThe Sky is not Cloudy All Day (above).
The large gallery on the first floor reunited the four paintings, Home, Home on the Range, Where the Deer and the Antelope Roam, Where Seldom is Heard a Discouraging Word and AndThe Sky is not Cloudy All Day (above).
Ashmolean Museum, 2010
Oxford
Date: 28-04-2010 – 26-09-2010
Royal Elephants from Moghul India: Paintings from the Collection of Howard Hodgkin.
For pictures with what the curator calls 'full zoomability', go to
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/4/6713/6714/all/sort_by/seqn.
Southampton City Art Gallery, 2009-2010
Southampton
Date: 04-12-2009 – 14-02-2010
As Time Goes By: large prints by Howard Hodgkin
Alan Cristea Gallery, 2009
31/34 Cork Street, London
Date: 03-06-2009 – 11-07-2009
As Time Goes By: the red and the blue versions, together with large prints, 'Into the Woods', 'Frost', the Venice series.
Gagosian Gallery, 2008
London W1, UK
Date: 03-04-2008 – 17-05-2008
Installation view, Gagosian Gallery, London WC1
Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007
Cambridge, UK
Date: 24-05-2007 – 23-09-2007
"Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007"
Yale Center for British Art, 2007
New Haven, USA
Date: 01-02-2007 – 01-04-2007
"Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007"
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2006-2007
Madrid, Spain
Date: 18-11-2006 – 08-01-2007
"Howard Hodgkin", paintings retrospective.
Picture: Installation view.
Tate Britain, 2006
London, UK
Date: 14-06-2006 – 17-09-2006
"Howard Hodgkin", paintings retrospective.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006
Dublin, Ireland
Date: 22-02-2006 – 07-05-2006
"Howard Hodgkin", paintings retrospective.
Picture: during the installation
Barbican Art Gallery Tour, 2006
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Date: 2006 –
Headless man and Lupin contemplate 'Moonlight' at the private view of Hodgkin's prints, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 2006. Photo: Freya Turling, courtesy Victoria Art Gallery.
Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich, 2005
Switzerland
Date: 07-10-2005 – 12-11-2005
"Howard Hodgkin: Small Paintings"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros, 2005
Andros, Greece
Date: 26-06-2005 – 25-09-2005
"Metamorphosis: British Art of the Sixties; Works from the Collections of the British Council and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation"
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005
New York
Date: 04-02-2005 – 25-04-2005
Group exhibition: "Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection".
Timothy Gurney Gallery, 2005
Norwich, UK
Date: 20-09-2004 – 09-01-2005
"Surprise! Modern Art in Norfolk Private Collections"
Gagosian Gallery, 2003
555 W24th Street, New York, 10011
Date: 08-11-2003 – 20-12-2003
"Paintings" included Realism (above).
Portland Art Museum
Oregon
Date: 12-11-2002 – 05-01-2003
Group exhibition: "Embracing the Present: The UBS Paine Webber Collection"
Royal Academy of Arts, 2002
London, United Kingdom
Date: 14-09-2002 – 12-10-2002
"The Galleries Show". The main spaces were given over to commercial galleries, to show their artists. Gagosian were given the octagon, which Hodgkin had painted ultramarine. In it he hung eight small paintings.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2002-03
Wolfsburg, Germany
Date: 14-09-2002 – 19-01-2003
"Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert"
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2002
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Date: 07-08-2002 – 06-10-2002
"Howard Hodgkin: Large Paintings, 1984 -2002"
Contemporary Arts Museum, 2001-2002
Houston, USA
Date: 08-12-2001 – 17-02-2002
"The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art"
Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2001
London, UK
Date: 26-06-2001 – 19-08-2001
"Howard Hodgkin at Dulwich Picture Gallery"
Alan Cristea Gallery, 2001
London, UK
Date: 07-06-2001 – 30-06-2001
"Howard Hodgkin: Volume II, Into the Woods"
Galleria Lawrence Rubin, 2001
Milan, Italy
Date: 30-03-2001 – 04-05-2001
"Howard Hodgkin: Piccoli Dipinti"
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001
Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 24-03-2001 – 20-05-2001
"Paintings by Howard Hodgkin in Philadelphia Collections"
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