10/07/17
Howard Hodgkin: Painting India
The Hepworth Wakefield
1 July – 8 October 2017
On a damp, grey British summer day,
a dozen weary journalists are herded into a concrete building on the River
Calder. The building is David Chipperfield’s prize-winning The
Hepworth Wakefield. Inside the white cube
galleries, a riot of undiluted colours – reds, greens, yellows and blues –
radiates heat and light from the walls, enough to revive even the least
caffeinated of the troop. This is Howard Hodgkin: Painting India, an exhibition
of approximately 35 works from the past 50 years, since the artist’s first
visit to India in 1964, to his death at the age of 84 in March this year,
two months after completing the final work on display here.
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