David Batchelor
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Scottish painter, sculptor, writer
- David Batchelor ProfileDavid Batchelor's art is about colour. With lightboxes and everyday plastics, eccentric chandeliers and projections, he brings pure, direct colour into galleries and public spaces. His works are immediately delightful, but they are also concerned with what colour means in today's world and with how we experience it.David Batchelor's art is also about the city. His colours are the bright, sharp hues of neon and artificial materials, not the soft tones of the natural world.In this profile, the artist is interviewed in his studio, the place where he explores and experiments with "the stuff of the world". He speaks about many key works and reflects on his distinctive public commissions, including a tower of colour for the Whitehall offices of the Treasury and an illuminated tree by the Thames. Like the best art, these are intellectual works, thoughtful and rigorous, but they are fun too, pleasurable and beautiful.
David Batchelor: Found Monochromes by
Since 1997, Batchelor has been photographing single square and rectangle planes of uninterrupted white that he passes as he walks through London and places he visits. Batchelor started this body of work when thinking about the history of the monochrome in painting. A conversation between the philosopher Jonathan Rée and Batchelor accompanies these first 250 Monochromes.
Call Number: TR655 .B379 2010 v.1ISBN: 9781905464326Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Dirty Shiny by
Catalog for the exhibition held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, February 4-March 28, 2004.
Call Number: N6797.B386 A4 2004ISBN: 0907594964Publication Date: 2004
Chromophobia by
Chromophobia has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with forms of resistance to it. David Batchelor seeks to go beyond the limits of earlier studies, analyzing the motivations behind chromophobia and considering the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at color as a positive value.
Call Number: N7432.7 .B3 2000ISBN: 1861890745Publication Date: 2000-09-01
The Luminous and the Grey by
Color surrounds us: the lush green hues of trees and grasses, the variant blues of water and the sky, the bright pops of yellow and red from flowers. But at the same time, color lies at the limits of language and understanding. In this absorbing sequel to Chromophobia--which addresses the extremes of love and loathing provoked by color since antiquity--David Batchelor charts color's more ambiguous terrain.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781780232805Publication Date: 2014-02-19
