Saturday 10 January to Saturday 13 March 2004
David Hockney : Grimms Fairy Tales
DAVID HOCKNEY: Grimms' Fairy Tales. A National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. David Hockney Inside the Castle from The Boy who left Home to Learn Fear, 1969
This exhibition of etchings by David Hockney, illustrating six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, is taken from the limited edition book published by Petersburg Press. The artist drew the thirty-nine etchings directly onto copper plates, giving each fairy tale his own interpretation. Rather than illustrate the stories literally, Hockney has chosen vivid images to capture a mood or detail. Some of the tales are familiar like Rapunzel and Rumpelstilzchen; other, such as Old Rinkrank, Fundevogel and The Little Sea Hare are less well known. A National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England.
FREE Lunchtime Talks
All talks start at 1pm in The Brew House. Space is limited, and talks are popular so you are advised to book a seat early. Call 01483 444742 or email [email protected].
Thursday 12 February 2004 - David Hockney 'An Artist of our time' by Pat Campbell Hunt
Saturday 21 February 2004 - Sex Lies and Videotape: The Brothers Grimm Experience with Janet Dowling.
Storytelling Sessions for Families with Janet Dowling.
Saturday 7 February 2004 10am
Saturday 7 February 2004 11.30am
Saturday 21 February 2004 11am
Space is limited, so please book your seat. A fun and stimulating storytelling session for families (Children must be accompanied by an adult).
Janet Dowling - Storyteller
Janet Dowling originally trained as a psychiatric social worker in 1979-81. She used the concepts of storytelling and story-making in therapeutic work as a counselor, family therapist and group-worker. She then moved into management and continued to use stories and story-making in management development.
Since 2000 she has been working part-time as a storyteller in different settings - museums, schools, hospitals, community projects, and use storytelling techniques in consultancy work. In February/March 2002 she completed a six week full time course at Emerson College with Nancy Mellon on "Storytelling as a Healing Art". From APril 2002 she has been a director of the Society for Storytelling, taking hte lead on Storytelling in Health and Therapy Settings.
Janet Dowling is completing a MA in Children's Literature where she has focused her work on the impact of traditional folk tales on children's literature. For her dissertation she is looking at how mental illness is reflected in children's literature (which includes how mental illness is referred to in traditional folk tales)
DAVID HOCKNEY: Grimms' Fairy tales. A National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. David Hockney Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair from Rapunzel, 1969
DAVID HOCKNEY: Grimms' Fairy Tales. A National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. David Hockney. The boy hidden in a fish from The Little Sea Hare, 1969
DAVID HOCKNEY: Grimms' Fairy Tales. A National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. David Hockney The Haunted Castle from The Boy who left Home to Learn Fear, 1969
DAVID HOCKNEY: Grimms' Fairy Tales. A National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery. David Hockney The Princess in her tower from The Little Sea Hare, 1969
DAVID HOCKNEY'S FAIRY TALES
TOURS TO GUILDFORD
Guildford House Gallery
10 January – 14 March 2004
An exhibition illustrating etchings by David Hockney, of six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm comes to Guildford in January. David Hockney: Grimms’ Fairy Tales, a National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, first opened in 1993 and continues to tour extensively.
Hockney has given each fairy tale his own interpretation. Rather than illustrating the stories literally, he has chosen vivid images to encapsulate a mood or detail. Some of the tales are familiar, like Rapunzel and Rumpelstilzchen; others, such as Old Rinkrank, Fundevogel and the Little Sea Hare are little known.
The tales are drawn from centuries of folklore. As Hockney points out: "The stories weren't written by the Brothers Grimm....they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke."
His contemporary and often humorous approach to the tales is reflected in the quirky nature of the images. Of Rapunzel he says "...the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it's like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door's garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi‑detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible."
The 39 etchings were drawn directly onto copper plates by Hockney between May and November 1969. It was a decade in which etching featured strongly for Hockney. As well as Grimms’ Fairy Tales, he made two other important series: A Rake's Progress 1961‑3 and Illustrations for Thirteen Poems for CP Cavafy 1966.
Reflecting the historical aspect of the folk‑tales, Hockney has based some of the etchings on images by Old Masters: the head of an old cook in Fundevogel is based on a Leonardo da Vinci; the figures in Rapunzel are inspired by Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch and Uccello; and a Carpaccio painting is the source for an illustration in the story of The Boy who left home to learn Fear.
Born in Bradford in 1937, Hockney is one of the most popular British artists today. Major exhibitions of his work have been held all over the world. His work has included stage designs, photography and every kind of graphic medium. He has lived in California since the early 1970s.
Grimms’ Fairy Tales is one of an extensive range of exhibitions in the programme of National Touring Exhibitions from the Hayward Gallery. National Touring Exhibitions helps to bring the highest quality art within reach of communities throughout Britain, striving to open new doors and enable even more people to experience and appreciate art.
The Hayward Gallery is a constituent part of the South Bank Centre (SBC), which is also responsible for the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, the Poetry Library, the Hungerford car park and Jubilee Gardens. Each year the Hayward Gallery presents up to six major art exhibitions as well as National Touring Exhibitions in more than 100 venues around the country. SBC also stages nearly 1,000 ticketed performances of music, dance and literature and more than 300 free foyer events. It annually attracts more than three million visitors.
For over 30 years, the Hayward Gallery has a played a key role in creating imaginative, high‑profile exhibitions in London and, through National Touring Exhibitions, within the UK. Both NTE and the Arts Council Collection are managed by the Hayward Gallery on behalf of Arts Council England, and add to the Hayward’s distinctive national remit.
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