"Painted/Unpainted"
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Alan Charlton
Galería Cayón
Blanca de Navarra, 7 / 9. 28010 Madrid (España)
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April
Galería Cayón is pleased to present Painted/Unpainted, the first exhibition at the gallery by the British artist Alan Charlton (Sheffield, 1948). The exhibition comprises his latest paintings, that continues to expand his uniformly grey work.
Charlton, who is well-known because of his minimalistic art practice, has expressed in multiples times that he is just an artist who decides to make a painting, without further significance. His work has no other meaning than to be just painting, and his goal, to produce them. This way he defends the artist job in todays society as any other type of work. “I want my paintings to be: simple and absolute”, Charlton has said of his practice.
Born in 1948 in Sheffield, England, the artist studied at the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1966–1969, and during his tenure there, he decided to only produce gray paintings, citing its emotional qualities and mutability. Charlton's work has been gaining recognition since the 1970s and it has been exhibited at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Castello di Rivoli in Torino, the Tate in London, Arts Council Collection (London), Colección de Arte Contemporáneo “La Caixa” (Barcelona), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), MAM Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli (Turin, Italy), Museum Abteiberg, (Mönchengladbach, Germany), el MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Ambers, Belgium.)
Charlton, who is well-known because of his minimalistic art practice, has expressed in multiples times that he is just an artist who decides to make a painting, without further significance. His work has no other meaning than to be just painting, and his goal, to produce them. This way he defends the artist job in todays society as any other type of work. “I want my paintings to be: simple and absolute”, Charlton has said of his practice.
Born in 1948 in Sheffield, England, the artist studied at the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1966–1969, and during his tenure there, he decided to only produce gray paintings, citing its emotional qualities and mutability. Charlton's work has been gaining recognition since the 1970s and it has been exhibited at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Castello di Rivoli in Torino, the Tate in London, Arts Council Collection (London), Colección de Arte Contemporáneo “La Caixa” (Barcelona), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), MAM Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli (Turin, Italy), Museum Abteiberg, (Mönchengladbach, Germany), el MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Ambers, Belgium.)
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