David J. Batchelor
dal 3/12/2002 al 18/1/2003
Segnalato da
3/12/2002
David J. Batchelor
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
To produce the work for this exhibition, Batchelor projected the computerised image onto the lower gallery walls. He has developed themes that have been central to his work of the last three years, where the relations of processed photographic material and domestic infrastructure collide.
The Project Room @ Andrew Mummery Gallery
Drawing from contemporary lifestyle, interior design and architecture, Batchelor samples and manipulates images from magazines and life using an Apple Mac computer. He then paints the image on to MDF, and further references technology by literally cutting and pasting the work. The whole experience for Batchelor is often, what he calls a "freudian clash? I don't attempt to make a narrative, but it just happens. It verges on the chaos theory - making order out of the unordered."
To produce the work for this exhibition, Batchelor projected the computerised image onto the lower gallery walls. He has developed themes that have been central to his work of the last three years, where the relations of processed photographic material and domestic infrastructure collide. The space is smaller and lower than the main gallery and Batchelor has noted this when looking at the project space in it's own entity with it's spiral staircase feeding you in. The work has been made to deal with the physical experience of the gallery and has come out of his concern with being below street level, with reference to Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space. He believes there is something reminiscent of play, being smaller, under tables and chairs. He is interested in how we deal with space and our environment, but insists architecture is not a primary concern.
David J. Batchelor is the Senior Lecturer in painting on the foundation course at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Willard Boepple, Ori Gersht and Albrecht Schäfer continue in the upsatirs gallery until 21 December.
Gallery Open: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
The gallery will be closed from 21 December 2002 until 8 January 2003.
For further information, please contact Rebecca Harris on 020 7251 6265
Andrew Mummery Gallery
63 Compton Street, London EC1V 0BN
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