About

ALAN CHARLTON
It Started with a Chameleon
30 years of collaboration with Galerie Tschudi
27 July – 28 September 2019

Many years ago, as a young artist, Alan Charlton formulated a series of visionary principles of immutable clarity, which he follows unaltered to this day. He liberated his paintings from figuration, illusionism, gesture, theatricality and narration. It was also about countering the traditional image of the painter; he never wanted to become a celebrity painter of the old school, who arrives at the studio, whips out his brush, throws a few brilliant brush strokes on canvas and …