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SELECTED WORKS BY David Batchelor



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David Batchelor

Brick Lane Remix I

2003
Shelving Units, found light boxes, fluorescent light, vinyl, acrylic sheet, cable, plugboards

Dimensions variable

Through his artwork and writing, David Batchelor explores the concept of colour as a unique phenomenon: how colour’s omnipresence in everyday experience transcends function and aesthetics to create its own symbolic orders. Using second-hand light-boxes and shelving units, Batchelor’s Brick Lane Remix 1 is part of a series of work exploring how colour and culture are inextricably entwined. Grouping together a collection of electric signs found in the Banglatown area of London, Batchelor’s installation perfectly captures the gritty and exotic aura of Brick Lane, a shady side street notorious for prostitution, Jack the Ripper, and more recently, curry houses. Framing these cultural references as minimalist screens of neon hues, Batchelor creates a form of visual literature, isolating the essence of locality and contemporary legend.


David Batchelor

Parapillar 7 (Multicolour)

2006
Steel support with plastic, metal, rubber, painted wood and feather objects

267 x 78 x 78 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




David Batchelor's BIOGRAPHY



1955
Born in Dundee, Scotland


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2006
Wilkinson Gallery, London

2005
Ten Silhoettes, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London

2004
Shiny Dirty. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

2003
The Spectrum of Hackney Road, Wilkinson Gallery, London.

2002
Barrier, 38 Langham Street, London.

2001
Shiny-Dirty, Habitat, London.

2000
Electric Colour Tower, Sadlers Wells, London.
Apocalypstick, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London.

1998
Monochromobiles, The Economist Plaza, London.

1997
Shelf-Like, Frame-Like, Note-Like, Byam Shaw School of Art, London.
Polymonochromes, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

1996
Polymonochrome Drawings, Soho House, London.

1995
Serial Colour, Curtain Road Arts, London.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2005
David Batchelor and Joao Paulo Feliciano, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti,
Galerie Leme, Sao Paulo
Magic White, The Lowry, Salford
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Tall Stories MOT, London
Contrabandistas de Imagenes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
Colour My World, Riflemaker, London
Untitled, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles

2004
26th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Sodium and Asphelt, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Some Versions of Light, The Telephone Repeater Station, Richmond, North Yorkshire
Chromosexuals, Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen
One Night Stand, Pearl at El Montan Motor Hotel

2003
In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Primary Colours, City Gallery, Leicester
Embargo, Aubery Square, London
Days Like These, Tate Triennale, Tate Britain.

2002
Furori Uso, Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy.
Colour Love, Johnson County Comunity College, Kansas.
New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool.

2001
Ruby, PEARL, London
The Magic Hour: Art and Las Vegas, Neue Galerie, Graz, curated by Alez Farquharson.
Other Britannia, FundacionMarcelino Botin, Santander, Spain.
Amidst Concrete, Clay and General Decay, Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm
Millenium Commision, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
Other Britannia, TeclaSala, Barcelona.

2000
Perdify, La Tourette, France and Kettles Yard, Cambridge.
British Art Show 5, Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Birmingham.
Fact and Value, Charlottenberg Palace, Copenhagen.
Give and Take, Jerwood Space, London

1999
Ninenineninetynine, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London.
Limit Less, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (curated by Matthew Higgs).
East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.

1998
Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London.
One Wheel on my Monochromobile, Limited Edition for Camden Arts Centre, London.

1997
East International, The Sainsbury Centre/Norwich School of Art, Norwich.

1996
Station Transformation, Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv.
Abstractions, Byam Shaw, Concourse Gallery, London

1993
Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

1990
Approaches to Realism, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Goldsmiths Gallery, London.
Rotation, Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne.

 


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David Batchelor | Karla Black | Berlinde de Bruyckere | Peter Buggenhout | Steven Claydon | Bjorn Dahlem | Thomas Houseago | Jacob Dahl Jürgensen | Folkert De Jong | Ian Kiaer | Friedrich Kunath | Anselm Reyle | Silke Schatz | Dirk Skreber
 

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