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I AM AN ARTIST WHO MAKES A GREY PAINTING ? Alan Charlton
12 September 2006Annandale Galleries
» View I AM AN ARTIST WHO MAKES A GREY PAINTING ? Alan Charlton exhibition
Opening Wednesday 27 September 6:30 ? 9:00 pm
Exhibition dates 27 September ? 4 November 2006
ALAN CHARLTON (lives and works UK) is a veteran of nearly 150 solo exhibitions since 1972 in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world and the vision in his work has had a tremendous impact over the years. He builds (Giacometti comes to mind here) a ?container? through his oeuvre, setting the boundaries of the process with a consistent rigour so that paradoxically the work is always expanding rather than contracting. The artist has created a platform from which the responses are virtually infinite. The paintings therefore may be austere, but the effect on the viewer is anything but, and the result is to broaden rather than limit our emotions and horizons.
The installations particularly interest him. Each piece of a multi panel work is carefully constructed to interact with the others and in turn be in tune with the venue of the exhibition. Charlton has spent the last year preparing for this exhibition at ANNANDALE GALLERIES.
A statement by the artist; ?I WANT MY PAINTINGS TO BE: ABSTRACT, DIRECT, URBAN, BASIC, MODEST, PURE, SIMPLE, SILENT, HONEST, ABSOLUTE.? Pondering the statement makes one realise that the artist?s quarry is ambitious indeed. There are ten criteria in the statement and any three would make for very rare paintings indeed. When I go back over the above list I see that Charlton has made no empty claim ? the paintings are everything he says he wants them to be and go well beyond the conventional notion of painting. It is with great pleasure that Annandale Galleries present this first ever exhibition of the work of Alan Charlton to the Australian public.
For further press information visuals or interviews contact Annandale Galleries
» View I AM AN ARTIST WHO MAKES A GREY PAINTING ? Alan Charlton exhibition
Opening Wednesday 27 September 6:30 ? 9:00 pm
Exhibition dates 27 September ? 4 November 2006
ALAN CHARLTON (lives and works UK) is a veteran of nearly 150 solo exhibitions since 1972 in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world and the vision in his work has had a tremendous impact over the years. He builds (Giacometti comes to mind here) a ?container? through his oeuvre, setting the boundaries of the process with a consistent rigour so that paradoxically the work is always expanding rather than contracting. The artist has created a platform from which the responses are virtually infinite. The paintings therefore may be austere, but the effect on the viewer is anything but, and the result is to broaden rather than limit our emotions and horizons.
The installations particularly interest him. Each piece of a multi panel work is carefully constructed to interact with the others and in turn be in tune with the venue of the exhibition. Charlton has spent the last year preparing for this exhibition at ANNANDALE GALLERIES.
A statement by the artist; ?I WANT MY PAINTINGS TO BE: ABSTRACT, DIRECT, URBAN, BASIC, MODEST, PURE, SIMPLE, SILENT, HONEST, ABSOLUTE.? Pondering the statement makes one realise that the artist?s quarry is ambitious indeed. There are ten criteria in the statement and any three would make for very rare paintings indeed. When I go back over the above list I see that Charlton has made no empty claim ? the paintings are everything he says he wants them to be and go well beyond the conventional notion of painting. It is with great pleasure that Annandale Galleries present this first ever exhibition of the work of Alan Charlton to the Australian public.
For further press information visuals or interviews contact Annandale Galleries