Heong Gallery Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction Cambridge, United Kingdom

Exhibition

Heong Gallery
Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

Cambridge, United Kingdom

15th March to 29th August 2022

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The Heong Gallery at Downing College opens its new exhibition, Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction on the 15th of March 2022. The gallery designed by Caruso St John will host the contemporary artist's pioneering experiments in bringing the hand, eye, and optical instrument together inventively.

The exhibition is spread across The Heong Gallery and The Fitzwilliam Museum, and is in conversation with the artistic treasures that make up Cambridge University's historic collections.

Image: David Hockney"Grand Canyon I" 2017Acrylic on canvas 48 x 96" (hexagonal) © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt

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