Major David Hockney Exhibition to Open New UK Gallery

　　David Hockney, "Flight into Italy - Swiss Landscape", 1962. Oil on Canvas. 72 x 72 inches. © David Hockney.
NOTTINGHAM.- A major exhibition of over 60 works by David Hockney from national and international museum collections will open Nottingham Contemporary, one of the most interesting new spaces for art in the UK. Designed by leading architects Caruso St John, the public opening is on Saturday 14 November 2009.

　　The exhibition will re-examine Hockney's work 1960-1968, his early years in London and Los Angeles, in the context of art today. It is the first time the early work has been brought together since the Whitechapel retrospective of 1970, nearly 40 years ago.

　　The exhibition will occupy two of Nottingham Contemporary's four galleries, a huge combined space of 750 square metres, lit by 133 skylights. "Quite simply it will be one of the best spaces for art and culture anywhere in Britain,” Tate Director Nicholas Serota was recently quoted as saying.

　　The exhibition is curated by Nottingham Contemporary Director, Alex Farquharson. He is known for his adventurous and popular approach. He co curated British Art Show 6 which attracted 350,000 visitors and If Everyone Had An Ocean, an exhibition inspired by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, one of the most popular exhibitions ever at Tate St Ives.

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