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David Hockney’s Panoramic Year in Normandie Opens at Serpentine North

Critics describe a free Serpentine presentation that reads as a quietly optimistic late‑career meditation on time and seeing.

Overview

  • The exhibition runs from March 12 to August 23 at Serpentine North in London, with free admission.
  • A roughly 90‑metre frieze of more than 100 iPad works from 2020–21 encircles the gallery as printed panels charting the seasons around Hockney’s Normandy studio.
  • Ten late‑2025 paintings—five portraits and five still lifes—focus on Hockney’s inner circle, featuring sitters such as Jean‑Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, Richard Hockney, Joe Hage, Thomas Mupfupi and Jack Ransome.
  • A large printed mural in the Serpentine North garden highlights a spring tree house scene drawn from the frieze.
  • Early reviews highlight the digital presentation and scale, with some casting the show as a possible swansong and others emphasizing its spirit of renewal and hope.