Galerie Tschudi

Alan Charlton

Work by Alan Charlton

Biography

b. 1948, Sheffield (UK)

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Alan Charlton is one of the preeminent British artists of the post-war period. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Art in 1972, he has painted exclusively monochrome paintings in variations of the colour grey. The formal principles of his work appear self-evident: canvases painted in grey, executed without painterly gesture or visible brushstroke, the formats divisible in height, width and depth by a factor of 4.5. Even the gaps in multi-part works or the blank spaces in the so-called Channel Paintings correspond to this basic measurement. Each painting is planned precisely by Charlton, who executes every step of its production himself. He orders the wood slats for the stretcher frames, cut to size, joins them together, attaches the canvas, paints it grey, makes a suitable transport box and packs up the work. His by now legendary selfdescription is succinct: «I am an artist who makes grey paintings.»

Past Exhibitions

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Alan Charlton

Trapezium Painting, 2021

acrylic on canvas
225 × 135 cm
AC/P 130

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Alan Charlton

Trapezium Painting, 2021

acrylic on canvas
225 × 112.5 cm
AC/P 129

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Alan Charlton

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, 2019

Block Painting, dark grey with light grey, 2019

acrylic on canvas
468 × 153 cm
AC/P 106

Block Painting, light grey with dark grey, 2019

acrylic on canvas
468 × 153 cm
AC/P 105

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Alan Charlton

3 Part Painting in 2 Greys, 2001

acrylic on canvas
202.5 × 306 cm
AC/P 63

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Alan Charlton

Wiggis Painting, 1996

acyrilc on canvas
423 × 243 cm
AC/P 57

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Alan Charlton

4 Part Painting, 1989

acrylic on canvas
211.5 × 211.5 cm
AC/P 7

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Alan Charlton

Narrow Cross, 1991

acrylic on canvas
31.5 cm wide
94.5 × 94.5 cm
AC/P 24

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Alan Charlton

Narrow Cross, 1991

acrylic on canvas
4.5 cm wide
139.5 × 139.5 cm
AC/P 21

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Alan Charlton

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, 1996

Glärnisch Painting, 1996

acrylic on canvas, 5 Parts
81 × 243 cm each
423 × 243 cm overall
AC/P 56

Schilt Painting, 1996

acrylic on canvas, 5 Parts
81 × 243 cm each
423 × 243 cm overall

Wiggis Painting, 1996

acrylic on canvas, 5 Parts
81 × 243 cm each
423 × 243 cm overall
AC/P 57

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10/27

Alan Charlton

12 Part Horizontal Painting, 1996

acrylic on canvas
72 × 265.5 cm
AC/P 53

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Alan Charlton

2 Part Painting, 1995–2018

acrylic on canvas
148.5 × 72 cm
AC/P 97

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Work by Alan Charlton

12/27

Alan Charlton

Outline Painting, 2006

acrylic on canvas and acrylic on wall
canvas: 225 × 225 cm
wall: 279 × 279 cm
AC/P 70

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Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, 2006

Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Diagonal Painting in 4 Parts, 2011

acrylic on canvas
171 × 355.5 cm
AC/P 76

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Alan Charlton

Diagonal Painting in 2 Parts, 2011

acrylic on canvas
171 × 346.5 cm
AC/P 72

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Alan Charlton

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, 2015

Triangle Painting in 4 Parts, 2015

acrylic on canvas
427.5 × 270 cm
AC/P 77

Triangle Painting in 3 Parts, 2015

acrylic on canvas
427.5 × 270 cm
AC/P 78

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Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Triangle Painting in 3 Parts, 2015

acrylic on canvas
225 × 315 cm
AC/P 79

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18/27

Alan Charlton

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, 2019/2020

Triangle Painting, 2015

acrylic on canvas
58.5 × 54 cm
AC/P 84

Triangle Painting, 2015

acrylic on canvas
58.5 × 45 cm
AC/P 83

Triangle Painting, 2015

acrylic on canvas
58.5 × 72 cm
AC/P 86

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Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Triangle Painting, 2015

acrylic on canvas
216 × 162 cm
AC/P 80

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Work by Alan Charlton

20/27

Alan Charlton

Unpainted and Painted, 2018

acrylic on canvas
252 × 306 cm
AC/P 101

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Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Unpainted and Painted, 2018

acrylic on canvas
202.5 × 139.5 cm

Work by Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton

Triangle on Canvas (18 × 13.5 cm), 2015

acrylic on canvas
37 × 42 cm / 47 × 55 cm (framed)
AC/P 124

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Alan Charlton

Canvas Drawing, 2001

acrylic on canvas on paper
47.5 × 120 cm (framed)
AC/D 16

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Alan Charlton

Canvas Drawing, 2001

acrylic on canvas on paper
61.5 × 111 cm (framed)
AC/D 17

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Alan Charlton

Canvas Drawing, 2001

acrylic painted canvas and pencil on paper
120 × 39 cm (framed)
AC/D 14

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Alan Charlton

Triangle Drawing, 2014

pencil on paper
60.9 × 43.5 cm (framed)
AC/D 20

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Alan Charlton

Triangle Drawing, 2014

pencil on paper
60.6 × 86.6 cm (framed)
AC/D 22

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Books

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Selected Press

Art TV

Alan Charlton-Richard Long

Kunst Museum Winterthur

7 September 2021

Alan Charlton (1948) und Richard Long (1945) zählen zu den herausragenden britischen Künstlern der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Im Dialog entfalten die Werke Longs und Charltons einen Fächer der zentralen Fragen der Kunst ihrer Epoche: die Suche nach neuen Möglichkeiten für die Kunst jenseits akademischer Traditionen und institutioneller Zwänge.

Contemporary Magazine

VERTICAL INTEGRATION

John Slyce

2006

His self-authored epigram reads: ‘Alan Charlton is an artist who makes a grey painting.’ It’s that simple. In conversation, Charlton is, like his work, honest, direct, modest and often given to being quietly profound.

Kunstbulletin

Hamish Fulton und Alan Charlton in der Galerie Tschudi

Gisela Kuoni

1999

Zwei britische Künstler, die auf den ersten Blick verschiedener nicht sein können, zeigen erstmals gemeinsam ihre Arbeiten: Hamish Fulton, der Wanderer ohne Atelier, und Alan Charlton, bekannt als der Maler der grauen Bilder, seit fast dreissig Jahren.

Artforum

Alan Charlton

Massimo Carboni

1997

Maintaining a remarkable degree of consistency in his twenty-year career, the English painter Alan Charlton has dedicated himself to creating an autonomous visual language derived from a rigorous structural grid. His recent installation, was again based on systems of combination and variation.

Artforum

Alan Charlton: Holger Priess Galerie

Jens Asthoff

1993

Alan Charlton describes his work with characteristic understatement: “I am an artist who makes a gray painting”—a declaration that seems just as minimal as the paintings themselves. And since 1970, true to his word, this protagonist of British conceptual Minimalism has consistently hewed to monochromatic painting in gray, developing his works as specific objects based on clearly proportioned constructions.

Kunstforum

...es sind bilder, ganz entschieden.

Doris von Drateln

1990

Alan Charlton ist ein Künstler, der graue Bilder malt. So hat er sich selbst definiert. Seit zwanzig Jahren malt er graue Bilder, installiert sie in immer neuen Formen; seit zwanzig Jahren gab es von ihm nicht viel mehr über seine Arbeit zu erfahren als den oben zitierten Satz.

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