David Batchelor
For a number of years David Batchelor has been experimenting with colour as it is experienced in the modern urban environment: commercial, industrial colour; chemical, electrical colour; shiny, reflective, glowing colour.
Found objects such as old warehouse trollies and illuminated shop signs are used by Batchelor as supports for brilliant panels of monochrome colour. Recent works have included a number of perilously tall “Electric Colour towers” in which second hand steel shelving is used to support a wide variety of rectangular lighting units, from emergency exit signs to advertisements for pizza parlours.
“Electric Colour Picture” is made from a standard illuminated exit sign that has been modified to house a strange pink-purple colour that is half Rothko and half Las Vegas. The hue has been produced by the combination of two contrasting panels of transparent coloured acrylic.
