Smoke, the Magic Conference Dragon / Homage to Hockney
© Art Axis 2015
To coincide with David Hockney’s Painting and Photography exhibition at Annely Juda gallery, London W1. Running until the end of June.
( update February 2023 )
David Hockney at the Lightroom ( Kings Cross Coal Drop Yard )
” In this new exhibition, DAVID HOCKNEY: BIGGER & CLOSER (not smaller & further away), Lightroom’s vast walls and revolutionary sound system enable us to experience the world through Hockney’s eyes.
In a cycle of six themed chapters that include iconic and rarely seen and new pieces, Hockney opens up his process to us, inviting us into his work. ”
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David Hockney 2005
Derivation photograph ( public domain )
Artist and Pro-smoking campaigner David Hockney smokes a cigarette
during the Labour Party conference in Brighton, September 2005.
Dadaist Art Axis asserts that the shape, texture, color and form of Hockney’s own exhaled cloud of cigarette smoke ( in order to deliberately make a protest point about the right to smoke at the Labour Party Conference in 2005) can be legitimately considered to be an unconscious artwork by Hockney, until now unrecognized as such.
This perception of a conceptual art nature, featuring the appropriation of a substantial crop of David’s exhaled cigarette smoke, captured in a public domain photo; being enlivened through the addition of a digital “eye” to then resemble a dragon’s head, gives the artist the right to claim the image as an original artwork.
London Dada, under IP law does not require Hockney nor his agent’s response, signature nor permission to place this digital photo artwork for sale – although obviously of the artist’s own creation, was not a deliberately intentional piece previously claimed as his property or consciously made by his own exhaled breath.
London Dada offers a limited opportunity to invest in an original subconscious and appropriated Hockney creation as an eminently affordable and investable asset
Available in 2023 as a signed edition on verso of 25 ( fine art Lightjet giclee prints on Kodak pro Endura ) with London Dada‘s official watermark embossed in the 2″ margin.)
14″ x 12″
£250
( unframed )
- Update June 2026, on the sad occasion of the much-loved artist’s death.
- Signed edition prints 1 -15 sold
Enquiries;
St.Mark@londondada.com
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