Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

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In his  paintings and sculptures, Glenn Brown reflects upon the history of art never confining himself to a specific period; he refers for instance with artistic strategies from Renaissance till the twentieth century, working after paintings of Rembrandt, Menzel, Dalí or Auerbach for instance. Glenn Brown could be perceived as the ultimate Mannerist painter, perplexing the viewer with distorted, exaggerated and sometimes grotesque forms. His technical virtuosity is captivating. While he uses the traditional technique of oil painting, his swirls of colour that appear at first glance to be impasto reveal themselves almost as trompe-l'oeil under closer inspection.

"Everything oozes majestically. The paintings and sculptures of Glenn Brown are deliquescent in the physical sense of the term, the property possessed by certain solid substances of slow liquefaction by gradual absorption of atmospheric humidity. Description of this now jubilant, now morbid magma gives rise to an unending, indeed unbearable succession of sugarcoated adjectives, adverbs and nouns. One can come at these paintings only tentatively, by narratives and descriptions, by impressions, by repetitions and sonorities and by the contradictions in which they are so rich. Any language that can encompass the work of Brown must necessarily be vague, full of double-talk and ambiguity, for this is the way in which the artist treats images."

Jean-Marie Gallais, Exquisite Deliquescence in Glenn Brown, Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2011

Image: Nigger of the World, 2011, oil on panel, 172 x 138 cm

Solo Exhibitions

GLENN BROWN - Galerie Max Hetzler

Dessins

57, rue du Temple, Paris

5 September – 10 October 2015
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

(catalogue)

Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin-Charlottenburg

8 April – 28 May 2011
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

(catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

3 February – 11 March 2006
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

17 September – 26 October 2002
Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Paintings and Sculptures

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

15 April – 3 June 2000

Group Exhibitions

MATIÈRE GRISE - Galerie Max Hetzler

MATIÈRE GRISE

Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Jérémy Demester, Günther Förg, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Charline von Heyl, Liz Larner, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

10 June – 20 July 2017
REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
(catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

10 November – 21 December 2013

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Glenn Brown and the Old Masters

Glenn Brown and the Old Masters

Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

1 November 2013 – 16 February 2014

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Publications

Dessins - Galerie Max Hetzler

Dessins

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2015
With a text by Andreas Schalhorn

€ 50,-

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REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 45,-

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Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2011
Text by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 35,-

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Glenn Brown - Galerie Max Hetzler

Glenn Brown

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2006
Text by Tom Morton

€ 35,-

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Selected Press

Art Monthly 2009

Frieze 2009

Financial Times 2009

Art in America 2009

Parkett 2005

The Guardian 2004

Frieze 1993

News

Glenn Brown

Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master (group show)
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
7 July - 14 October 2018

This exclusive new exhibition, which will only be shown in Edinburgh, reveals how the taste for Rembrandt’s work in Britain evolved over the past 400 years. From early beginnings around 1630, it grew into a mania that gripped collectors and art lovers across the country, reaching a fever pitch in ...
Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

The Explorers (Part One) (group show)
V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice
25 May - 22 October 2018

Curated by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick, the exhibition revisits and expands four displays from the V-A-C collection, first seen at the Whitechapel Gallery from 2014 to 2015. The Explorers who have brought together remarkable finds from the collection, ranging from ancient African ...
Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Transmutations: What’s Old is New Again (solo show)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
18 May 2018 - 19 August 2018

The JSMA will exhibit eight works by Glenn Brown, selected by new and longtime masterworks collectors. Distinctive in Britain’s contemporary art market, Brown revives the art historical past through delicate acts of appropriation that build upon the legacy of Renaissance and Romantic masters. Seven ...
Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts (solo show)
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
16 June - 21 October 2018

In 2017, the Laing Art Gallery was the first recipient of the Contemporary Art Society’s ‘Great Works’ scheme. A spectacular work by Glenn Brown was gifted to the collection, and this exhibition will continue to build on the Laing's relationship with the artist.

Glenn Brown was born in nearby ...
Glenn Brown