Viewing David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton

The blockbuster opening everyone is talking about this week is David Hockney’s magnificent and monumental take over at Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris. Hockney has been involved in every detail of making the exhibition, and it shows, from the sublime hang and layout of more than 400 works drawn from collections all over the world, staged across 11 rooms to immersive video installations and more.

This is the biggest show Hockney has ever had, and offers an unprecedented view of the artist’s trajectory and seven-decade career, with particular focus on his prolific production in the last 25 years – when Hockney has returned to live and work in the UK and France. It also includes iconic early works (swims and ponds abound), sixty spectacular portraits, and works made in London only recently completed and shown for the very time in public, proving Hockney’s unending passion for painting now, aged 87.

Journeying through the phenomenal British artist’s range of interests form opera to nature to people’s interior worlds, his mastery of both portrait and landscape painting genres and his dazzling use of colour, makes this exhibition riveting from start to finish. In both scale and sheer volume of works, it’s an unparalleled Hockney moment not to be missed.