Alan Green

Installation view, Konstruktiv Tendens

Installation view, Konstruktiv Tendens

From Prints to Paintings

The monoprints made between late 1999 and the end of 2000 proved to be a transitional step between the expansive "Horizontal" paintings exhibited in Tokyo and London between 1996 and 1998 and the "Disc" paintings of 2001. Access to a good intaglio workshop facilitated the production of a single monoprint image of the required precision. Flexibility existed for precise and rapid development within selected formal parameters. Instantaneous decisions, revisions and adjustments, impossible to achieve in any other two-dimensional medium, became the norm. This made possible the rapid exploration of a vast range of formal options realised only at the instant of printing.

The introduction of specific collage elements and masking stencils, worked in opposition to the sense of implied speed generated by the rolled surface and the scratched line. This confrontation between fixed and free has been a central preoccupation of mine since the "Block" paintings of 1972. The exposure of underlying layers through surface perforation, as in print I Nov 00, led directly to the "Disc" paintings of April 2001 onwards. The painting "Lattice" was the first painting to use the language developed in the prints. To facilitate this I attempted to transcribe the central image of print III Dec 00 onto a primed canvas - an increase on the linear scale by a factor of 10.

Central to the recent paintings has been the contiued use of the disc in both its male and female modes. The discs themselves physically exist in acetate and are strictly hand.made without geometric aids, thereby leaving more scope for the development and interaction of organic irregularities. Their location, density and scale varies in relation to their role on the canvas surface - e.g. as stabilising points of reference, free clusters of family groups or punctuated points exposing recessed layers of activity. Essentially hand-made, I intend that they reflect direct, tactile activity condensed to essentials to form an indivisible totality.

Alan Green, March 12, 2002

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1932 in London.
Lived in London and Monmouth, Wales.
Passad away 2003.

  1. 1949-53
    1. Studied Beckenham School of Art
  2. 1955-58
    1. Studied Royal College of Art, London
  3. 1958-59
    1. RCA Major Travelling Scholarship, France and Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  1. 1963
    1. A.I.A Gallery, London
  2. 1970
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  3. 1973
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    2. Galerie Liatowitsch, Basle
  4. 1974
    1. Galerie Hervé Alexandre, Brussels
    2. Galerie Art in Progress, Munich
  5. 1975
    1. Studio la Citta, Verona
    2. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    3. Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg
    4. Galleria Vinciana, Milan
    5. Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen
  6. 1976
    1. Alan Green Etchings 73-76,
    2. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    3. Tate Gallery, London
    4. Galerie Klaus Lüpke, Frankfurt
    5. Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin
    6. Painting Box Gallery, Zurich
  7. 1977
    1. Galerie Art in Progress, Munich
    2. Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf
  8. 1978
    1. Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin
    2. Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
    3. Clark Gallery, Boston
    4. Susan Caldwell Inc., New York
    5. The Round House Gallery, London
    6. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    7. Galerie Palluel, Paris
  9. 1979
    1. Artline, The Hague
    2. Galerie Loyse Oppenheim,
    3. Nyon, Switzerland
    4. Alan Green - Paintings 1969-1979,
    5. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
  10. 1980
    1. Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf
    2. Alan Green: Paintings 1969-80,
    3. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
  11. 1981
    1. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
  12. 1982
    1. Juda Rowan Gallery, London
    2. Gimpel Hanover + Andre Emmerich
  13. 1982
    1. Galerien, Zurich
    2. Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf
    3. Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
  14. 1983
    1. Alan Green/Nigel Hall,
    2. Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris
  15. 1984
    1. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
    2. Gimpel Hanover + Andre Emmerich
    3. Galerien, Zurich
    4. Galerie Nicole Gonet, Lausanne
    5. Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
  16. 1985
    1. Galerie Klaus Lupke, Frankfurt
    2. Galerie Appel & Fertsch, Frankfurt
    3. Galerie Edition . E, Munich
    4. Juda Rowan Gallery, London
  17. 1986
    1. Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
    2. Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo
    3. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
    4. Donald Morris Gallery, Michigan
  18. 1987
    1. Fondation Veranneman,
    2. Kruishoutem, Belgium
  19. 1988
    1. Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
  20. 1989
    1. Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
    2. Donald Morris Gallery, Michigan
  21. 1990
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    2. Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
  22. 1991
    1. Galerie Wassermann, Munich
  23. 1992
    1. Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
    2. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
    3. Galerie Klaus Lupke, Frankfurt
  24. 1993
    1. Galerie Wassermann, Cologne
  25. 1994
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  26. 1995
    1. Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
  27. 1996
    1. Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
    2. Base Gallery, Tokyo
  28. 1998
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  29. 2002
    1. Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    2. Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm

Selected Group Exhibitions

  1. 1957
    1. Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
  2. 1966
    1. Hamilton Galleries, London
  3. 1967
    1. Survey 67 - Abstract Painting, Camden Arts Centre, London
  4. 1969
    1. British Movements, Onnasch Galerie, Berlin
  5. 1973
    1. La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd'hui, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
    2. Prospekt '73, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
    3. XII Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  6. 1974
    1. British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London
    2. The Process of Painting, 10th International Art Biennale, Menton
  7. 1975
    1. Empirica, Comune Rimini and Museo Castelvecchio, Verona
    2. The British Exhibition, ART 6 '75, Basle
    3. Tendencies in Modern Painting, Nordjyllands Kunst Museum, Oslo
  8. 1976
    1. Cronica, Galleria Civica Comune de Modena, Italy
    2. Europa America l'Astrazione Determinata '60-76, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
    3. Colour in Painting, Istituto Italo Latino Americano, Rome
  9. 1977
    1. Documenta VI, Kassel
    2. British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy, London
    3. Bilder Ohne Bilder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
    4. Five British Painters, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
  10. 1979
    1. The British Art Show, Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition
  11. 1980
    1. Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    2. British Art Now, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and subsequent touring exhibition British Art Now, updated exhibition ät the Royal Academy of Art, London
  12. 1982
    1. Aspects of British Art Today, British Council touring exhibition of Japanese museums
  13. 1983
    1. ARS 83, The Art Museum of the Atheneum, Helsinki
  14. 1985
    1. Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  15. 1988
    1. La Couleur Seule - LExperience du Monochrome, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon
    2. The Presence of Painting - Aspects of British Abstraction 1958-1988, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
  16. 1991
    1. Auf Papier, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basle
  17. 1992
    1. Kunst Werk/Art Works, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation touring exhibition
  18. 1993
    1. Partners, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
    2. International Print Triennale, Cairo, Egypt
  19. 1994
    1. Out of Print: British Printmaking 1946-76, British Council European touring exhibition
    2. British Abstract Painting, Flowers East, London
    3. Painters and Prints Part Two, Curwen Gallery, London
  20. 1995
    1. Swinging 60s - Sparkling 90s, Collection Banque Lambert, Bruxelles
    2. The Casino Luxembourg
    3. Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
  21. 1996
    1. Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zurich
    2. British Abstract Art - Works on Paper, Flowers East, London
  22. 1997
    1. Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
  23. 2001
    1. Geometrisk, Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
  24. 2002
    1. Colour - A Life of ils Own, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary

Public Collections

  • Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
  • Alvar Aaito Museum, Finland
  • Arts Council of Great Britain
  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra
  • Contemporary Arts Society, London
  • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Glasgow Art Gallery (McAlpine Loan)
  • Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld, Germany
  • Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung
  • Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
  • Kunstmuseum, Zurich
  • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  • McCrory Corporation, New York
  • Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels
  • Musee d'lxelles, Brussels
  • Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
  • National Museum of Art, Osaka
  • Neue Galerie, Kassel
  • Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
  • Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
  • Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Sprengel, Germany
  • Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
  • Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
  • The British Council
  • Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Japan
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
  • Ulster Museum, Belfast
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modem Art, Japan
  • Whitworth Museum, Manchester
  • Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen