He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000.įondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin From 1984 to 1992 he studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and then at Goldsmith’s College. Often placing formal and aesthetic concerns over original subject matter and meaning, details from well-known works are isolated, manipulated, becoming subject matters themselves. Naturalistic colour becomes kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque, while heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat.
Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the familiar into the alien. Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer.īrown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. The Glenn Brown exhibition brings together the largest selection of the works of this highly revered painter of his generation.
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