Monday 29 February 2016

Curriculum Vitae




DAVID SAUNDERS

Born 1936, lives in Tarascon sur Ariège, France

Selected One – person exhibitions

2014
Mummery + Schnelle, London Art Rotterdam

2008
La Galerie, Foix

2003

Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt

2002
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
SEVEN SEVEN, Gallery, London

1995
Avivson Fine Art, London

1983
South Square Gallery, Thornton

1980
Liverpool Academy

1979
Sally East Gallery, London

1974
Lucy Milton Gallery, London
Bluecoats Gallery, Liverpool

1970
Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex

1967
Bristol Arts Centre

1965
A.I.A. Gallery, London


Selected group exhibitions

2016

'Systems 1972', Tate Britain, London
’56 Group Wales - 60 years of art in Wales’ National Library of Wales
2015
‘Intersections’  New Art Projects, London
2014
‘Conversations around Marlow Moss’&Model, Leeds
2011 ‘Homage to the Founding Generation’ Institut für neue technische Form, Darmstadt 
2009 ‘Walking 2’ La Galerie, Foix ‘Homage to the Founding Generation’Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
2008 ‘A Rational Aesthetic’ Southampton City Art Gallery
2007 ‘Wunderkamer’ Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
2006 ‘The Stars Down to Earth’ The Nunnery, London
2004 Multiple Grafik und Objecte, Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
2003 ‘Ten 10 Zehn’ Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
2002
‘25+25’ Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
‘Serious Pleasure’, Centro Modigliani, Florence
Contemporary Art Society ‘ARTfutures’, City of London School
‘Eyes and Ears and Ears and Eyes’, The Nunnery, London
2000
‘The Wreck of Hope’ The Nunnery, London
Contemporary Art Society ‘ARTfutures’, The Barbican Centre, London
Saunders, Bonnefoi, Pinceman et. al., Galerie le Carré, Lille,
1999
‘Painting and Time, The Nunnery, London
1998
‘Grossbritanien, Konstructive-Konkret’ Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
1996
‘Ten Artists from the British Isles’, JNJ Gallery, Prague
1995
‘Mostyn Open 5’, Oriel Mostyn, LLandudno
1993
‘A Different Contexture’ (David Saunders and Jagjit Chuhan), Acorn Gallery, Liverpool
1992
‘Mostyn Open 4’, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
1990
‘1000 Cubic Centimetres’, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
‘Blank Page 3’ Black Bull Gallery, London
‘Mostyn Open 2’, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno 1989
‘Complexions’ (David Saunders, Nichole Charlette and Richard Bell) Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax and Galerie l’Ideé, Zoetermeer 1987
‘1000 Cubic Centimetres - Geometrical Miniatures’, Galerie de Sluis, Leidschendam 1986
‘Colour Presentations’, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, Stoke on Trent City Museum, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
‘Colour Constructions’, Exhibiting Space, London
‘Systematic and Constructivist Drawings’, Wentworth Gallery, University of York
1983
‘Four British Constructivists’ Engstrom Gallery, Stockholm
1980 ‘Artists’ Books’, Galerie Lydia Megert, Berne
1979
Cleveland International Drawing Bienale.
1978
‘Rational Practice’, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex
1976
‘English and Dutch rational Drawings’, Galerie de Volle Maan, Delft
‘Rational Concepts’, Kunstcentrum het Badhuis, Gorinchem
‘British Constructivists’ Kunstsammlung, Gelsenkirchen
1975
‘Ways of Making’ Chapter, Cardiff and Arts Council tour Art ’75 Basle
1974
IKI ’74, Düsseldorf
1973
‘Themes and Variations’, ICA, London
1972-3
‘Systems’, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Arts Council tour
1970
‘Matrix’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1969
‘Systems’, Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki
‘Art in Wales, the 20th Century’, National Museum of Wales
1967
‘Survey ’67- Abstract Painting’, Camden Arts Centre, London
Edinburgh Festival Open 100 (prizewinner)
1966
‘Undefined Situation’, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff
1960
‘Tomorrow’s Artists’, Grabowski Gallery, London
1959
‘Young Contemporaries’, RBA Galleries, London

Selected collections
Tate Gallery, London
Southampton City Art Gallery
Arts Council of England
Arts Council of Wales
The British Library, London
Conoco -Philips Collection, Warwick 
Dean Clough Collection, Halifax
Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
Gemeente Museum, The Hague
Logica PLC, London
Rijksmuseum Meermano, The Hague
Stamford University, USA
University of Sussex
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Selected bibliography
Studio International September 1969, exhibition review, Terry Measham p. 87 
Studio International May 1970, exhibition commentary. p.237
Studio International May 1972, interview on Arts Council ‘Systems’ exhibition, Malcolm Hughes pp. 200 – 203
‘Systems’, Arts Council exhibition catalogue 1972. Texts by Stephen Bann and the artist. pp. 13, 40 – 42
Studio International November – December 1976, ‘Art and Experimental Music’ edition, p299
Blank Page Issue no. 3 London 1989
Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking,1900 – 1990, second edition 1998, p.273
Photogenic Painting, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, Introduction by Adrian Rifkin, Courtauld, London 1999, pp. 33 - 34
Art Monthly, May 2000, exhibition review, ‘The Wreck of Hope, p. 42
Schriftenreihe 4, 2001, ‘Malerie und Zeit’, 
Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, pp. 33-36.
Constructed Abstract Art in England – A Neglected Avant-Garde’, Alastair Grieve, Yale University Press 2005, p54
Deaf School, The Non-Stop Punk Rock Party, Philip Du Noyer, Liverpool University Press 2013 pp. 40-1, 56, 64, 74, 232-3.

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