Neo-concreto 042 presents a compact yet commanding union of raw concrete and coloured glass, measuring 38 by 35 by 6 centimetres. Completed in 2016 and signed by the artist, the work encases luminous glass fragments within a dense concrete ground, creating a dialogue between industrial weight and chromatic radiance. The surface reads simultaneously as architecture and painting, with colour not applied but embedded, as though light itself has been quarried from the material and made permanent. David Batchelor has long investigated colour as a philosophical and cultural condition, most famously through his concept of chromophobia, the Western tendency to associate colour with the superficial or the transgressive. Neo-concreto 042 sits squarely within that inquiry while drawing on the legacy of Brazilian Concrete and Neo-Concrete art movements, which elevated geometric abstraction into a sensory and even bodily experience. By invoking that tradition in his title, Batchelor positions the work in a transatlantic conversation about materiality, perception, and the politics of colour, grounding these ideas quite literally in concrete rather than in theoretical abstraction. For collectors, the work offers both intimacy and conceptual density. Its modest scale belies a sophisticated internal logic, one in which industrial materials are transformed through careful selection and placement into something approaching the meditative. The absence of a frame keeps the object honest about its own physicality, allowing the concrete edges and embedded glass to assert themselves without apology. Available through Galeria Leme, Neo-concreto 042 represents a refined and cohesive example of Batchelor's mature practice.