David Hockney, Ed Ruscha and Chris Ofili: this week’s best UK exhibitions
Take in etchings inspired by Greek poet CP Cavafy, eerie paintings of Los Angeles, and work by a landscape artist turned tapestry designer
There is an eerie, apocalyptic undertone to Ed Ruscha’s apparently bland vision of Los Angeles. The gas stations and strip malls he paints or photographs may burst into flames any second. Morbid, poisoned skies glow above their neatly painted signs; flat yet bizarre messages are written in the ether. Ruscha is a pop artist, a conceptual artist and a surrealist whose images portray the same sinister Hollywood you see in David Lynch films. In other words, a contemporary great.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, to 29 April 2018
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