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David Batchelor - Concretos
Throughout his international career spanning more than thirty years, artist and writer David Batchelor has long been...
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Throughout his international career spanning more than thirty years, artist and writer David Batchelor has long been preoccupied with color. "Colour is not just a feature of [my] sculpture or painting," he notes, "but its central and overriding subject." This new publication is devoted to an ongoing series of sculptures titled Concretos. First made in 2011, Concretos combine concrete with a variety of brightly colored - and often found - materials.
The publication features a text by Batchelor charting the origins and development of Concretos. He reveals that the first Concreto was made after encountering colored glass shards embedded in a concrete wall in the back streets of Palermo. Over time these Concretos, their title a nod to the Latin American art movement to which Batchelor's work is much indebted, have become more complex adventures in layering, pattern, and process. Elements such as acrylic plastic, spray and household gloss paint, steel, fabric, and found objects all find themselves set in a concrete base. The most recent works, titled Extra-Concretos (2019-) retain much of the simplicity of the early pieces while working on a much larger scale.
In an essay commissioned for the publication, curator Eleanor Nairne considers Concretos in light of their material possibilities. Nairne's vivid text draws connections between the sculptures and a wide range of art historical and literary references. Some of the playful and sensual characteristics of Batchelor's artistic vocabulary are considered in relation to floral bouquets, sewing-machines, ice cream, and poetry.
Architectural historian Adrian Forty's essay discusses concrete's physical qualities and relationship with modernity. He notes that the imperfect nature and apparent neutrality of the material is key to its enduring place within architecture, design, and in Batchelor's case, contemporary sculpture. "In the Concretos," asserts Forty, "concrete plays a necessary part in allowing colour to be itself. Present, but at the same time part of the barely noticed, half-invisible infrastructure of the city, concrete's very neutrality performs an unexpectedly active part in these works."
The publication is edited by David Batchelor and Matt Price, designed by Hyperkit, printed by Park, London, and published by Anomie, London. The publication coincides with the first large-scale survey exhibition of Batchelor's work taking place at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK, in 2022. The publication has been supported by Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and Arts Council England.
David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor's two-dimensional work, "Flatlands", was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor's work was included in the landmark group exhibition "Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015" at Whitechapel Gallery, London. "My Own Private Bauhaus", a solo exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Batchelor was presented by Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival, 2019. Between 2017 and 2020 a large-scale work by Batchelor was displayed in the collection of Tate Modern. He is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and Galeria Leme, São Paulo. Batchelor's portfolio also includes a number of major temporary and permanent artworks in the public realm including a chromatic clock titled "Sixty Minute Spectrum" installed in the roof of the Hayward Gallery, London.
"Chromophobia", Batchelor's book on color and the fear of color in the West, was published by Reaktion Books (2000), and is now available in ten languages. His more recent book, "The Luminous and the Grey" (2014), is also published by Reaktion. In 2008 he was commissioned to edit "Colour" an anthology of writings on color from 1850 to the present published by Whitechapel/MIT Press.
Author: David Batchelor, Eleanor Nairne, Adrian Forty
Publisher: Anomie Publishing
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.44h x 8.42w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781910221389
The publication features a text by Batchelor charting the origins and development of Concretos. He reveals that the first Concreto was made after encountering colored glass shards embedded in a concrete wall in the back streets of Palermo. Over time these Concretos, their title a nod to the Latin American art movement to which Batchelor's work is much indebted, have become more complex adventures in layering, pattern, and process. Elements such as acrylic plastic, spray and household gloss paint, steel, fabric, and found objects all find themselves set in a concrete base. The most recent works, titled Extra-Concretos (2019-) retain much of the simplicity of the early pieces while working on a much larger scale.
In an essay commissioned for the publication, curator Eleanor Nairne considers Concretos in light of their material possibilities. Nairne's vivid text draws connections between the sculptures and a wide range of art historical and literary references. Some of the playful and sensual characteristics of Batchelor's artistic vocabulary are considered in relation to floral bouquets, sewing-machines, ice cream, and poetry.
Architectural historian Adrian Forty's essay discusses concrete's physical qualities and relationship with modernity. He notes that the imperfect nature and apparent neutrality of the material is key to its enduring place within architecture, design, and in Batchelor's case, contemporary sculpture. "In the Concretos," asserts Forty, "concrete plays a necessary part in allowing colour to be itself. Present, but at the same time part of the barely noticed, half-invisible infrastructure of the city, concrete's very neutrality performs an unexpectedly active part in these works."
The publication is edited by David Batchelor and Matt Price, designed by Hyperkit, printed by Park, London, and published by Anomie, London. The publication coincides with the first large-scale survey exhibition of Batchelor's work taking place at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK, in 2022. The publication has been supported by Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and Arts Council England.
David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor's two-dimensional work, "Flatlands", was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor's work was included in the landmark group exhibition "Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015" at Whitechapel Gallery, London. "My Own Private Bauhaus", a solo exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Batchelor was presented by Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival, 2019. Between 2017 and 2020 a large-scale work by Batchelor was displayed in the collection of Tate Modern. He is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and Galeria Leme, São Paulo. Batchelor's portfolio also includes a number of major temporary and permanent artworks in the public realm including a chromatic clock titled "Sixty Minute Spectrum" installed in the roof of the Hayward Gallery, London.
"Chromophobia", Batchelor's book on color and the fear of color in the West, was published by Reaktion Books (2000), and is now available in ten languages. His more recent book, "The Luminous and the Grey" (2014), is also published by Reaktion. In 2008 he was commissioned to edit "Colour" an anthology of writings on color from 1850 to the present published by Whitechapel/MIT Press.
Author: David Batchelor, Eleanor Nairne, Adrian Forty
Publisher: Anomie Publishing
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.44h x 8.42w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781910221389
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