大卫巴彻勒

Spectrum of Brick Lane

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‘Spectrum of Brick Lane’ (2007). An assemblage of salvaged material transformed into a tower of colourful lightboxes, the sculpture illustrates David Batchelor‘s interest in city colours, rather than those of nature. In this TateShots film, David tells us how he takes inspiration from the city, the art of mastering monochromes, and why he needed to escape from ‘bloody rectangles’.
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source: saatchi-gallery

David Batchelor makes sculptural installations from objects found in the streets of London, hollowed, stacked and given a new life as empty but brightly coloured light boxes or as unlit composites. Consistent throughout his works is the lurking familiarity of the material leftovers of modern life, from factory scrap to disused or broken domestic items, re-purposed into hypnotic, beautifully patterned objects presenting a distillation of colour’s presence in our everyday environment.
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source: dickiewebbwordpress

Represented by Galeria Leme, David Batchelor’s work plays with objects and light, although quite humorous there is also an uneasy undertone with some of his pieces. These works leave you guessing as to whether you have missed a moment or whether like a joke it is a joke about you.

His Found Monochrome series are what caught my eye at first as they seem meditative at first whilst your mind starts to wander and wonder as to what was here on this blank paper/billboard/sign?