Catalogue for David Hockney's A Year in Normandie exhibition at Serpentine North

A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting Catalogue

David Hockney

A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting Catalogue

£30.00

Published to accompany the exhibition at Serpentine North (12 March – 23 August 2026),

Dimensions:: 283 x 213mm, pp. 144

Description

To accompany the exhibition A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting at Serpentine North (12 March – 23 August 2026), Serpentine has co-published a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig, Köln.

It brings together new and insightful contributions from the fields of art history and literature to reflect on David Hockney’s monumental frieze A Year in Normandie (2020-21) and his latest series of paintings, created for his solo exhibition at Serpentine. Generously illustrated in colour throughout, it features essays by David Hockney; art historian and curator Marco Livingstone; and writer Olivia Laing; as well as an in-depth interview with Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Alongside installation views of the exhibition at Serpentine North, all paintings in the exhibition are featured in detail, emphasising the artist’s sensitivity to colour and composition.

Published by: Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

Edited by: Claude Adjil and Liz Stumpf

Contributors: David Hockney, Olivia Laing, Marco Livingstone and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Design: David Hockney, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima and Elise Wille

Layout: Giles Round

Print: EBS, Verona, Italy

Pages: 144

Dimensions: 283 x 213mm

Publication Date: May 2026

ISBN: 978-1-918731-00-2 (Serpentine)

ISBN 978-3-7533-1023-7 (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln)

Artist

David Hockney

David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) is one of the most influential artists of our time. Throughout his seven-decade spanning career, the British artist remains endlessly inventive and committed to celebrating the world around him, epitomised by his signature phrase, “Love Life.” A deep fascination with perspective and a desire to investigate how we see and represent the world led him to explore a range of artistic mediums from painting to photographic collages, set design, drawing and printmaking. Hockney’s use of new technology is an extension of his interest in different modes of capturing reality. From his Polaroid composites to fax machine drawings and, in recent years, his iPad paintings, he seeks to unlock the potential of each technology for the creation of art.

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A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting Catalogue

£30.00