For nearly two decades David Batchelor has been photographing found
white monochrome panels of posters, signs, timetables etc in London and other cities in the UK and all over the world, from Glasgow, Berlin, Stockholm, Madrid, New York, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Shanghai among others.
Not exact matches
and a point toe, alongside a
white leather caged vamp and a
monochrome woven heel
panel for a strong graphic twist.
Found
Monochromes is a collection of photographs taken by Batchelor over a 20 year period, of single square and rectangular
white planes and
panels encountered on walks through cities from London to São Paulo.
Back in Paris, Kelly joined together two
monochrome canvas
panels, producing Black /
White (1951), which, he argued, «freed form from ground», transferring the ground from the canvas onto the wall itself.
I think that within the same
panel the
white in question is an unchanging
monochrome and that the retinal spotting, clouding and speckling is the result of the free activity of nerve endings and chance illumination.
Eight
monochrome panels, in varying shades of cloud blue and each trimmed in gold leaf, are hung beneath a canopy of brilliantly radiating neon
white light.
The show includes a wood
panel covered with black cedar shingles by Aaron Aujla (b. 1986); a vertical
monochrome whose surface is marked by circular holes, which turn out to be the insides of plastic caps for cans of spray paint, by Dylan Bailey (1985); and a ghostly square
monochrome whose surface is made from horizontal rows of strapping tape, translucent but reinforced with
white string, by Chris Duncan (b. 1974).
Add punch to a
monochrome bedroom scheme by pairing dark charcoal
panelling and a crisp
white bed with bold orange bedside tables.