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

GLENN BROWN

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

9 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
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

Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto (group show)
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
20 October 2018 - 7 January 2019

On the occasion of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto, in a project designed to underline the modernity and innovative power of his painting, the Polo museale del Veneto, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Zuecca Projects present “Contemporary ...
Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London (group show)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
9 October 2018 - 30 January 2019

The exhibition of almost 90 pictures will portray one of the most pronouncedly individual periods of modern British art, longest-lasting in its influence and bringing together excellent artists. It seeks to show how these painters conveyed their personal, sensual, momentary and often extremely ...
Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown

Der Flexible Plan. Das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst (group show)
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
23 September 2018 - 6 January 2019

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Glenn Brown