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.
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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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The Leisure Centre (solo show)
The Brown Collection, London
15 September 2023 – 3 August 2024
Coinciding with Frieze London 2023, the Brown Collection presents its third exhibition, The Leisure Centre, at Bentinck Mews in Marylebone, London. The exhibition brings together works by Glenn Brown with artists from the past and present, from Brown’s personal collection.
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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 opens museum dedicated to his works (solo show)
The Brown Collection, London
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
The Brown Collection is home to the art collection of the British artist Glenn Brown, CBE. With over three floors of exhibition space in a renovated warehouse in Marylebone, London, the building also houses the artist’s archives and administrative offices.
The inaugural exhibition shows the breadth of Brown’s body of work, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. These include the artist’s early appropriations of Frank Auerback and Jean-Honore Fragonard in Shallow Deaths, 2000, and Shallow End, 2011, exquisite mid-career drawings in antique frames, and paintings such as On the Way to the Leisure Centre, 2018, as well as his newest works that highlight a distinctive painterly drawing mark on layered portraits after Renaissance Old Masters. Future exhibitions will include works by other historical and contemporary artists that have inspired or converse with works in the collection. Brown also intends to create a large, site-specific mural work after Abraham Bloemaert in the galleries in the future.
Wheelchair or special access is available by appointment.
Address:
The Brown Collection
1 Bentinck Mews
London W1U 2AF
Opening hours during Frieze London:
Tuesday, 11 October to Sunday, 16 October 2022
11 am – 6 pm
Regular opening hours:
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
11 am – 6 pm
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