“He has never lost his wonder at the world” David Hockney’s preface to the Derek Boshier monograph
//David Hockney 22 Times, Derek Boshier, 2014. 31 x 42 inches. Ink on Archer’s paper//
I’m delighted to announce that David Hockney has written the preface to Rethink/Re-Entry, the Derek Boshier monograph I am editing.
In the piece, Hockney points out that they have known each other since 1957, and that Boshier “like me, is an artist, and one who has never lost his wonder at the world”.
//Derek Boshier and I at the opening of his 2012 exhibition David Bowie + The Clash at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex//
//From David Hockney 22 Times//
Boshier’s response has of course been creative: he has made a new drawing, David Hockney 22 Times, which will feature in the book, out next year from Thames & Hudson.
I have written about Boshier’s engagement with popular music, in particular with David Bowie and The Clash. With an introduction by painter and art historian John M. Walker, Rethink/Re-Entry includes an essay by Tate Britain’s Chris Stephens on the artist’s painting and his association with British Pop Art in the 60s, while Prof Lisa Tickner homes in on Boshier’s participation in Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary Pop Goes The Easel.
//From David Hockney 22 Times//
Boshier’s champion, the critic and curator Guy Brett, discusses his friend’s disavowal of painting during the 70s as he investigated a variety of other practices, David Brauer – head of the history of art department of the Glassell School of Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts – and historian/curator Jim Edwards look at the important period when Boshier was based in Texas in the 80s, and writer and artist Chris Finch – like Boshier, an expat Brit in Los Angeles – details the ways in which California has informed Boshier’s most recent work.
//From David Hockney 22 Times//
Rethink/Re-Entry will be an event in itself; the ever-active Boshier has rendered individual artworks as chapter openers. It will of course, feature reproductions of work from throughout the career of this prodigious and deeply underrated contributor to contemporary art.
Visit Boshier’s website here.