David Batchelor

David Batchelor (1955, Dundee, Scotland, UK) studied at Watford College of Art (1973-75), obtained a BA in Fine Arts at the Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK (1975-78) and obtained an MA in Cultural Studies at the Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK (1978-80). Batchelor is the author and editor of several publications, including The October Colouring-in Book (Common-Editions: London, 2015); The Luminous and the Grey (Reaktion Books, London, 2014); Flatlands (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2013); Found Monochromes (Ridinghouse, London, 2010); Colour (Whitechapel, London / MIT Press, Boston, 2008); Chromophobia (Reaktion Books, London, 2000); and Minimalism (Tate Publications, London, 1997). These and other publications by the author document the main themes and ideas of contemporary art and reflect on the aesthetic, cultural and philosophical significance of colour for artists within the broader context of anthropology, literature, cinema, philosophy, and science. David Batchelor's artistic work focuses on the same theme and is underlined by a critical concern about the way we see and respond to colour today, in a technologically advanced age.

Among the individual and group exhibitions in which he participated, the following stand out: Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Contemporary Scottish Art, Royal Scotish Academy, Edinburgh (2020); A Certain Darkness, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain (2018); Totem: Spirit Beings & Sacred Objects, Saatchi Gallery, London (2017); Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2016); Light Show, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates (2015); Monochrome Arquive 1997-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2014); Magic Hour, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland (2012); Color Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, UK (2009) and MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2008); Contrabandistas de Imágenes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile (2005); Polymonochromes, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (1997); among others.

PS, dezembro 2020