David Batchelor

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Disco Mécanique, 2007. Photograph © Thierry Bal

Title: Disco Mecanique
Location: Metropole Galleries, The Leas

Batchelor has made a dazzling kaleidoscope of multi-coloured spheres appearing to free-float in space. The sculpture is created from thousands of cheap, brightly coloured plastic sunglasses, bought in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Transformed into spheres and suspended in a cluster from the ceiling of the historic space of the Metropole Gallery via discoball motors, they rotate slowly and silently, a galaxy of spinning globes, throwing pools of transparent colours across the room as they glint in the light.
The title of the work is derived from Fernand Leger’s 1924 film ‘Ballet Mecanique’ and inspired by the gallery, which was formerly the ballroom of The Metropole Hotel.

Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre

About David

Photo: Guinam Moon

Born Dundee, 1955. Lives and works in London.

David Batchelor’s work is principally concerned with colour as it is experienced in the modern city, and takes the form of three-dimensional work, drawings, photographs and video.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Unplugged, Talbot Rice Gallery – Edinburgh 2007
Festival Remix, South Bank Centre – London 2006
Ten Silhouettes, Gloucester Road Underground Station – London, 2006
Shiny Dirty, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 2004

Recent group exhibitions include

Color Chart, MoMA – New York 2008
Echo Room, Alcala 31 – Madrid, 2007
Abstraction, Millennium Galleries – Sheffield 2007
Backdrop, Bloomberg Space – London 2006
the 26th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2004

Batchelor is the author of Minimalism (1997), Chromophobia (2000) and editor of Colour (2008). He is currently Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at the Royal College of Art, London.

See David Batchelor's work
http://www.wilkinsongallery.com