Immersive exhibition will form the centrepiece of the celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday next year
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will be transformed into an immersive opera house as it plays host to an exhibition featuring the sets David Hockney designed for productions of works by Mozart, Wagner and Stravinsky dating back to the 1970s.
The art form might be considered passé by Timothée Chalamet, but Tate is to use the sets as the centrepiece of its celebration of Hockney’s 90th birthday in 2027.
Better known for his landscapes and portraits, Hockney worked on several opera sets going back to his time in London before he moved to Los Angeles.
After trying set design at the Royal Court for a production of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, Hockney would go on to design others, including for Richard Strauss’s fantasy opera, Die Frau ohne Schatten – The Woman without a Shadow - that embraced a pop-art aesthetic.
