Abstraction Resting on a Red and White Checkered Tablecloth Tea Towel Wolfgang Tillmans Switzerland

Switzerland

Melissa Blanchflower with Natalia Grabowska

Design: David Hockney

producing a series of unique prints

pushing its essential components of colour

Abstraction Resting on a Red and White Checkered Tablecloth Tea Towel Wolfgang Tillmans SwitzerlandSerpentine unveils a new body of work by the celebrated British artist, comprising five still lifes alongside five portraits that depict members of the artists close circle, including his family and carers. These paintings are united by their frontal composition and by the recurring motif of a gingham tablecloth that provides the setting for each composition. In these new works Hockney combines abstract and figurative modes of representation. For the