Special Event: David Hockney - Herzliya Cinematheque
The event at the Herzliya Cinematheque focuses on the works of David Hockney and includes a lecture and a film. Hockney was an artist who contributed significantly to the art world with his innovative approach and use of technologies, and his work explored homosexual relationships with complexity. The film "High Waves," based on his creations, will be shown at the end of the lecture.
The event at the Herzliya Cinematheque focuses on the works of David Hockney and includes a lecture and a film. Hockney was an artist who contributed significantly to the art world with his innovative approach and use of technologies, and his work explored homosexual relationships with complexity. The film "High Waves," based on his creations, will be shown at the end of the lecture.
**Friday | 14.8 | 11:00 | Herzliya Cinematheque**
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Actors: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson
(125 min, English; Hebrew subtitles)
About a year ago, on the eve of a grand retrospective dedicated to him in Paris, David Hockney (1937β2025) stated that he wishes to offer viewers "joy, true joy." The responses of mourning and appreciation for his work, triggered by his death worldwide, indicate how successfully he did so for over six decades. Hockney spent his life contemplating how we perceive the world and what becomes part of our images. In his light and color-rich paintings, he combined rare optimism, personal freedom, and a direct look at reality. Additionally, he embraced new technologies from Polaroid and fax to iPad, and depicted homosexual relationships without apology or declaration, with the complexity characteristic of any human connection. In the lecture, we will follow the transitions between England and the United States, examine his extensive body of work β from painting, drawing, and print to theater and opera design β and explore how he shaped his public persona as an artist and carved a unique path between figurative art, conceptual art, and contemporary visual culture.
Following the lecture, the film "A Bigger Splash" will be screened. This is a loose adaptation of the French drama "The Swimming Pool." A famous rock star goes on vacation on a volcanic island in the Mediterranean with her partner, hoping to recover from a vocal cord surgery. The tranquility is shattered when a former lover, a charismatic and noisy music producer, unexpectedly arrives with his young daughter. Among blinding sun, blue sea, and breathtaking scenery, the four are swept into a vortex of passion, jealousy, sexuality, and power games. David Hockney's series of paintings, led by "A Bigger Splash," provided the film with its name and visual inspiration. Directed with sensuality by Luca Guadagnino and starring some of the most charismatic actors of their generation, the result is a mesmerizing creation that freely moves between art house cinema and torrid melodrama.
