Jean Fremon

Visiting Normandy in October 2018, on a whim David Hockney decided to settle in Pays d'Auge. Confined to his house during the 2020 lockdown, on canvas, paper, and iPad, he dialogued with the trees in his garden, the moon, and the rain. Hockney's life and work during this time have been portrayed by his friend and neighbour, the gallerist Jean Fremon. Thanks to this portrait of an artist, we witness the Arrival of Spring. This book is translated from David Hockney en Pays d'Auge (L'Echoppe, 2020).

'Fruit cocktails that do not arrive; rickshaws with no passengers; […] the absent body of the crucified from the Isenheim Altarpiece in David Hockney’s painting; a trip, an insomnia; a country where time is different…'In this dreamlike novella, in the bewitching melancholy of nocturnal India, an art dealer pursues the goddess of the void. La Deesse du vide was first published in Rue du Regard (P.O.L editeur, 2012). The present publication is a bilingual edition, comprising a new translation in English and a revised version in French.