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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Batchelor makes various kinds of structures often assemblages of second-hand objects which function as foils for the lightness of light. Essentially they are manifestations of colour. Those involving light boxes explicitly refer to illuminated signs the shapes and colours of a metropolitan environment and at the same time allude to post-war modernism. They constitute a kind of abstract impressionism but a closer look reveals their nuts and bolts wiring and other means of construction. Batchelor thereby resists an aesthetic seamlessness and dispels any sense of mystery opting instead to communicate a no-nonsense fascination with his medium. Other works exhibited here include an installation of warehouse dollies an exciting development out of Batchelor’s Monochromobiles (made since 1997 collectively entitled I Love King’s Cross and King’s Cross Loves Me courtesy of Joseph Beuys). On small castor wheels each component exemplifies the instability and fugitive nature of its subject. The Found Monochromes of London a sequence of projected slides 35mm transparencies also conflates notions of high-art purism and simple everyday phenomena. Eighty-one images depict blank rectangles – faded posters empty billboards et cetera – superimposed on architecture and other surfaces of the city in an endless loop. The monochrome thus becomes a repeated void in a busier and more chaotic visual experience exemplifying the possibility of the movement of art into life and vice versa. (SP)