David Batchelor

David Batchelor (born July 17, 1955 in Dundee , Scotland ) is a Scottish artist and author.

Life

Batchelor studied art at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham , England from 1975 to 1978 and then from 1988 to 1980 cultural theory at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University . So far (2017) he has published three books on colors and has been the author of various articles in magazines such as Artscribe , Frieze and Artforum . From 2002 to 2005, Batchelor served on the Program and Development Advisory Board at Tate Britain in London . Batchelor is today Associate Professor in the Department of Curature of Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London .

For his light installations (lightboxes), Batchelor often uses objects that he finds on the streets of London as bulky waste or that have been thrown away by the industry. He transforms these parts into frames, which then contain neon lights, discarded advertising lights, etc.

Exhibitions (selection)

• British Art Show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in Edinburgh , Scotland
• Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art , Tate Britain, London
• Extreme Abstraction at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo , New York
• 2008: Color chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today , Museum of Modern Art , New York
• 2009: in Tate Liverpool with the English spelling color instead of color
• 2008: Folkestone Triennial , Folkestone , Kent , England
• 2010: Open Light in Private Spaces , in Unna during the Biennale for International Light Art as part of the Ruhr.2010 Capital of Culture
• 2010: The Gathering , Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• 2011: The Shape of Things to Come. New Sculpture , Saatchi Gallery , London

Publications

• 2010: Found Monochromes. Ridinghouse, London.
• 2008: as editor: Color. Whitechapel, London / MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts for exhibition in New York and Liverpool , ISBN 978-0-262524810 .
• 2000: Chromophobia. Reaction Books, London ISBN 1-86189-074-5 .
  • 2004: German: Chromophobia: fear of color. 2nd Edition. translated by Michael Huter, ISBN 3-85114-870-3 .

Web links

• Website of the artist (en.)
• Exhibition overview on art aspects