Week10#My experience of visiting David Hockney’s exhibition

Part I: My first feeling

Unlike some of the novelty layouts in the Frameless multiplex, this exhibition offers a very large holographic projection space where you can choose to sit or lie on the floor and quietly watch David’s paintings come to life frame by frame.
From his early photographic inspirations to the different perspectives he has developed, from Opera-inspired stage elements to hand-painted iPads of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the exhibition is accompanied by his own calming narration as the audience is immersed in the Garden of Eden he has created with his paintings. The film is 50 minutes long and I couldn’t get enough of it even after watching it twice.
The overall effect of the exhibition is extremely healing. In the holographic projections, the colours and brushstrokes of the paintings are magnified, and with the music and animation effects, it gives the impression of being in a scene that is serene, passionate, grotesque or full of life.
“The master always always uses childish brush strokes to capture everything in its right form”.

Part II: Some problems (just from my view)

However, I personally think that the presentation of “immersive holographic projection” could have been better in this Lightroom gallery, where there is no projection screen on the ceiling, and secondly, because the audience is scattered, and basically the screen behind the visuals presents some of the artist’s original drawings and many people only discover the screens behind them towards the end of the exhibition;
Secondly, because the entrance to the exhibition hall is in a semi-open corridor, the constant sound of people entering and leaving would affect the viewer’s perception. The use of holographic projection to review the artist’s practice is indeed very innovative, but I think perhaps a connecting gallery could be set up at the end of the digital exhibition to return to the artist’s hand-drawn original manuscripts from the light and shadow space, as well as in the design of the gift shop I personally think could also be more innovative, these are some of my critical comments.

Later I also went to the Courtauld Gallery, where I saw more relevant professional books about curating. I also reflected more on the digital immersion space I was trying to create, and I thought I should find a way to ‘immerse’ the viewer, to be able to create a space and create an atmosphere, not just a display, to tell people something, and I would probably design galleries in my exhibitions, and be able to create I will probably design galleries in my exhibitions, and be able to create partitions between the works, so that the different works have their own distribution.

At the same time, according to the inspiration given to me by this book, I am considering whether it is possible to set up an after party location in a certain corner of my exhibition, put some food and drinks, and provide a space for the audience to talk about their feelings.