NEC display solutions highlight the work of artist David Hockney at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne

NEC Display Solutions Europe has supplied display technology to the 'David Hockney' exhibition: A Bigger Picture’ at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne (Germany), in which the British contemporary artist David Hockney exhibits his enormous landscape paintings gathered in 150 parts, mostly painted in the last five years.

The Ludwig Museum in the German city of Cologne has hosted since 27 from October to 3 February 2013 a macro-exhibition dedicated to the renowned British painter David Hockney, which includes more than 150 of his works. Titulada ‘David Hockney: A Bigger Picture’, The sample extends for a period of 50 years to demonstrate the British artist's fascination with landscape and arrives in the German city after passing through the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Hockney presents landscapes of his hometown in this exhibition, Yorkshire (England), enveloping the visitor among trees of orange tones, blues and pinks, not only in paintings made “traditional way”, but also works made with Polaroid, color copiers, iPad, iPhone and digital cameras, displayed on multiple screens. So, Much of Hockney's works are exhibited through more than 70 MultiSync X551UN large format displays NEC, as well as in 13 MultiSync EA273WM units, which are used to display the digital artwork of pop art icon artist.

Along with traditional painting techniques, Hockney has worked intensively with computer drawing. The images generated in this way are an important feature of the Cologne exhibition and have an extraordinary vitality and immediacy, but their synthetic nature also gives them a strangely unreal aura. Uno de los aspectos más destacados de la exposición es una obra que muestra a doce malabaristas actuando en proyecciones de video en un videowall de 18 screens, providing an unexpected perception of movement in time and space.

Jonathan Cooper, Business Development Consultant at NEC Display Solutions Europe, has pointed: “The NEC MultiSync X551UN is our best product in the LCD video wall category and reflects the latest advances in this field, with a large format high definition display, with direct LED backlighting and a very narrow bezel. All of this ensures that the full impact of the work is shown as much as possible., without interference or interruptions for the visitor from the screen itself. Combined with a robust design capable of withstanding the rigors of use 24/7, It is the perfect screen for an exhibition of this type”.