Time and Place (Modern Art Oxford, June 23-September 5) is an exhibition of 25 new and recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin, exploring the acclaimed British artist’s use of abstraction as an expression of subjective experience.
This exhibition comes more than 30 years after Hodgkin’s seminal 1976 survey Forty-five paintings 1949-1975 at Modern Art Oxford.
Featuring paintings from 2001-2010, this new exhibition will offer a fresh view of Hodgkin’s work, revealing his continuing relevance as one of the most radical and compelling painters of our time. Included will be paintings not previously seen, featuring a powerful body of new work developed 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 ability to create painterly equivalents of depth and atmosphere using colour and brushstroke.
An increasing affinity with landscape and nature, matched with a dramatic freedom of gesture and economy of means, signals a distinctive new vigour and vitality in Hodgkin’s work that is emphatically about the here and now.
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place is organised by Modern Art Oxford in partnership with the De Pont Foundation Tilburg and the San Diego Museum of Art, to where it will travel in September 2010, and January 2011, respectively.
An illustrated book, featuring an essay by Sam Smiles, emeritus professor of art history, University of Plymouth, and Tate Research Fellow 2009-12, accompanies the exhibition.
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