Alan Charlton (artist)

Alan Charlton (* 1948 in Sheffield , England ) is a British painter . He is considered one of the most important conceptual artists in England.

Live and act

Alan Charlton attended the Sheffield School of Art from 1965 to 1966, then the Camberwell School of Arts of the University of the Arts London until 1969 and then the Royal Academy Schools of the Royal Academy of Arts until 1972 .

Since 1970 he has only been painting monochrome gray pictures, with the rectangle being the starting point of his work.

Alan Charlton is married to the artist Lesley Foxcroft and lives and works in Hatfield near London .

Exhibitions

Alan Charlton's work has featured in around 60 solo shows and over 120 group shows, including:

Solo exhibitions

• 1996: Galerie Tschudi , Glarus, Switzerland
• 1996: Annely Juda Fine Art , London
• 1996: Modulo, Lisbon
• 1996: Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth , England
• 1996: “Cross paintings”, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan
• 1997: Art Association in Hamburg
• 1997: Palazzo Municipale, Vignate , Italy (with Lesley Foxcroft)
• 1998: Konrad Fischer Gallery , Düsseldorf
• 1998: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
• 1999: Stark Gallery, New York
• 1999: “Equal Paintings”, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan
• 1999: Dörrie * Priess Gallery, Hamburg
• 1999: Espace d'Art Contemporain, Demigny , France
• 1999: Hohenthal and Bergen, Berlin
• 1999: Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli , Italy
• 1999: Tschudi Gallery, Glarus, Switzerland
• 2000: Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (with David Tremlett )
• 2001: Center d'Art, Neuchâtel , Switzerland (with Niele Toroni , Carl Andre )
• 2002: Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• 2002: House of Art, České Budějovice , Czech Republic
• 2002: Agire la Purezza, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan
• 2002: Alan Charlton chez Patrick des Gachons, Chateau de Fraissé, Fraissé-des-Corbières , France
• 2002: Gray Division, Ewald Mataré collection in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve
• 2003: Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
• 2004: Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz , Switzerland
• 2004: Lieu d'Art Contemporain, Corbieres Maritimes, Aude (with Lesley Foxcroft)
• 2004: Galerii Foksal, Warsaw
• 2004: Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin (with David Tremlett)
• 2004: Miguel Marcos, Saragossa
• 2004: Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
• 2005: A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan (with David Tremlett)
• 2006: “Outline Paintings”, Künstlerhaus Bregenz , Austria
• 2006: Annandale Galleries, Sydney
• 2006: “Outline Paintings”, Dörrie * Priess Gallery, Berlin
• 2007: Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (with Balthasar Burkhard , Bethan Huws , Petra Wunderlich )
• 2008/2009: Museum Kurhaus Kleve
• 2009: Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (with Carl Andre, Balthasar Burkhard, Richard Long )
• 2010: Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome
• 2010: “Grid Paintings”, Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
• 2011: Galerie Tschudi Zuoz, Zuoz, Switzerland
• 2011: “Grid Paintings”, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2011: Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
• 2011: A arte Invernizzi, Milan (with Ulrich Rückriem , Niele Toroni)
• 2012: "Triangle Paintings", Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist , Belgium and Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin
• 2013: “Diagonal paintings”, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
• 2014: “Triangle Paintings”, A arte Invernizzi, Milan
• 2014: Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Group exhibitions

• 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
• 1996: “Monochrome Geometry”, Goetz Collection , Munich
• 1996: “Squares of Lines”, Art & Public, Geneva
• 1997: Carré d'Art Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes , France
• 1997: Museum of Modern Art Otterndorf , Cuxhaven district
• 1997: “Hommages”, Artgo, Brussels
• 1999: “Blickwechsel”, Museum of New Art , Karlsruhe
• 1999: A arte Studio Invernizzi @ Art Cologne , Cologne
• 2000: Galerij S65, Aalst , Belgium
• 2001: Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
• 2001: "Paintings Abstract", Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2001: "Geometrisk", Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
• 2001: “Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
• 2001: "UK in the Seventies", Durand Dessert, Paris
• 2002: "Blast to Freeze, British Art in the 20th Century", Wolfsburg Art Museum
• 2002: The Royal Academy Summer Show , London
• 2002: "Color - A Life of its Own", Kunsthalle Budapest
• 2004: “L'art au futur Anterieur”, Musée de Grenoble
• 2004: "Beyond Geometry", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• 2005: "Art Unlimited", Art Basel

literature

• Christel Sauer, Urs Raussmüller: Alan Charlton. For the exhibition in the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen, May 2 to July 28, 1991. Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen 1991, ISBN 3-906352-02-1 .
• Alan Charlton. For the exhibition in the Museum Haus Esters , Krefeld, November 1, 1992 to January 31, 1993. City Director of the City of Krefeld, Krefeld around 1992, ISBN 3-926530-60-X .
• Elisabeth Madlener (Red.): Abstract painting between analysis and synthesis. For the exhibition from January 24th to March 18th, 1992 in the gallery next to St. Stephan . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1992, ISBN 3-85415-105-5 .
• Roland Mönig , Guido de Werd : Alan Charlton. For the exhibition at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve from September 28, 2008 to January 11, 2009. Friends of the Kurhaus Museum and Koekkoek House, Kleve 2008, ISBN 978-3-934935-42-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alan Charlton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alan Charlton at artfacts.net
• Alan Charlton on wikiart.org (with picture)
• To the work of Alan Charlton on kunstraum-alexander-buerkle.de (PDF; 6 kB)
• Alan Charlton, exhibition at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, September 28, 2008–11 January 2009 on the website of the Museum Kurhaus Kleve

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Charlton ( memento of October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on artheon.de
2. ↑ 49 Rectangles  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the BC Koekkoek House website  
3. ^ Alan Charlton - Painting Installation on the website of the Annandale Galleries, Sydney
4. ↑ Alan Charlton - Torilla, Hatfield on peterfoolen.blogspot.de
5. ↑ Alan Charlton on mac-lyon.com (French, PDF; 67 kB)
6. ↑ Michael Zajonz: Wall in wall. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 27, 2004