CATALOGUE
Fifty Years of Art: The Hiscox Collection 1970–2020, published by Hiscox/Whitechapel Gallery
Global insurer Hiscox have been collecting modern and contemporary art for fifty years, and their significant collection comprises 1000 works by international artists at the forefront of contemporary practice. Including work by Etel Adnan, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Joan Miró, Eduardo Paolozzi and Pablo Picasso, the collection will be on public view for the first time in two consecutive displays at Whitechapel Gallery: the first curated by British painter Gary Hume (b.1962) and the second by Berlin-based Venezualean artist Sol Calero (b.1982 ).
This comprehensive catalogue explores Hume and Calero’s selections with texts by both artists as well as images of the works exhibited. The book also serves as a reader of the last fifty years of contemporary art. Selected works from the Hiscox Collection appear alongside a timeline of the collection and a brand new interview between Whitechapel Gallery Director, Iwona Blazwick, and founder of the Hiscox Collection, Robert Hiscox.
The Hiscox Collection, includes two of Longhurst’s works; Vincent and I know What You’re Thinking .
ISBN 978-0-85488-287-8