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Frank Auerbach, Vanessa Bell, Bruce Bernard, Richard Billingham, Peter Blake, David Bomberg, Reg Butler, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Elisabeth Frink, Mark Gertler, Richard Greenhill, Brian Griffin, Siobhan Hapaska, Howard Hodgkin, Chris Killip, Sarah Lucas, Bernard Meninsky, Chris Ofili, Marc Quinn, William Patrick Roberts, Donald Rodney, Albert Rutherston, Jurgen Schadeberg, William Scott, Maud Sulter, Bedwyr Williams, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Bettina von Zwehl
“Aḷn Cristīa Gaḷri z plizd t priznt Grīn Ʈts, an xibišn v ny wrc bî Hawd Hojcin, wn v Britn’z most seḷbretd ātists. Ɖ xibišn fīčrz nîntīn ny limitd idišnz includñ a spešl hand-pêntd cāḅrundm rlif intîtld Fr Aḷn (2014). Printd in sevn cuḷrvẹriešnz, ɖ wrc z a tesṭmnt t Hojcin’z clôs wrcñṛlešnšp wɖ gaḷriônr n publišr Aḷn Cristīa, ẇč spanz ovr 20 yirz. Xibitd alñsd ɖ ny wrcs z a ynīc hand-pêntd vršn v ɖ 20ft ečñ, Az Tîm Gz Bî (2009).
Hojcin’z wrc ofn rfŕz t memriz n prsnl xpirı̣nsz. Ɖ šo’z tîtl Grīn Ʈts refṛnsz Andru Māvl’z 17ʈ senčri powm Ɖ Gādn. Ʈru a dlibṛt avýdns v ɖ iḷstṛtv, Hojcin drwz inspirešn fr ɖ ny prints fṛm Māvl’z ôn grīn ʈts. F smtmz ɖ wrcs rmen rzistnt t intrpṛtešn, ɖ ātist’s jesčṛl mācs, vîbṛnt culrz n ivoc̣tv tîtlz sč az Stwmclâd n Súndân, invît contmplešn abt incântrz wɖ nêčr.
Hojcin’z wrcs hv ɖ apiṛns v sponṭneyti, yt ɖe r ɖ rzult v xtnsv leyrñ n complx printprôsesz. Ɖ ātist hz cntiňli xplord ɖ psbltiz v printmêcñ ʈrt hiz c̣rir, wrcñ acrs a nmbr v tecnīcs, sč az šŭgr-lift aqtint n liʈogṛfi, in adišn t xperimntñ wɖ scêl. Ɖz ny prints r md yzñ a combinešn v cāḅrundmṛlif n handpêntñ.
Grīn Ʈts wl b acumṗnid bî a fŭli iḷstretd caṭlog wɖ an intṛduẋn ritn bî oʈr n BBC jrṇlist Andru Mar.
Ɖ Aḷn Cristīa Gaḷri z ɖ xclusv publišr v Hojcin’z hand-pêntd prints. T vy aveḷbl wrcs bî Hawd Hojcin clic hir.”
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