GLENN BROWN
The Real Thing (publication)
Published by Holzwarth Publications, 2023
Text by Jurriaan Benschop, Glenn Brown, Katja Lembke, Reinhard Spieler
The catalogue accompanying Glenn Brown’s double exhibition The Real Thing, currently on view at the Sprengel Museum and Landesmuseum Hannover until 18 June 2023, is now available for purchase. This publication condenses the key ideas of the exhibition, which presents Brown’s work alongside a selection of historical masterworks from the two collections. In this way, Brown brings continuities and contrasts from 500 years of painting into a contemporary dialogue. The publication contains new texts by Jurriaan Benschop, Katja Lembke, and Reinhard Spieler, as well as a conversation with the artist.
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GLENN BROWN et al.
The Laughing Stock of the Heartless Stars (group show)
The Brown Collection, London
12 September 2024 – 2 August 2025
The Brown Collection, London, presents The Laughing Stock of the Heartless Stars, an exhibition showcasing 70 diverse artworks by 28 artists over 500 years of Art History. Alongside these works, most of which have never been on public display, a new work by Glenn Brown is also on view. Curated by Brown and Edgar Laguinia, the exhibition explores humanity's relentless pursuit of significance in a universe without inherent meaning. Numerous works celebrate the beauty of nature, such as Henri Fantin-Latour's Roses Thé, 1874, while more contemporary works address environmental awareness and the transcience of nature. Brown's work skillfully confronts this intricate tension. A multitude of Brown's creations embody states of transition, decay, and the blurred line between artificial and organic forms.
The Brown Collection
GLENN BROWN
Collector’s Edition (publication)
Published by TASCHEN
In his paintings, sculptures and drawings, Glenn Brown confronts the history of art with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of colour. Numbered and signed by the artist, this Collector’s Edition treats the viewer to a close encounter with Brown’s eye-deceiving renderings of brushstrokes from sources between Sci-Fi and the Old Masters.
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