Glenn Brown at the Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
"hyper-Mannerist, neo-baroque and neo-surreal, nostalgic die-hard-and science-fiction, proteiform, metamorphic, ambiguous and disturbing, repellent and fascinating, beautiful and perverted, pictures, and shapeless. This is how Francesco Poli in the newspaper La Stampa summarized the work of the forty-three-year-old Glenn Brown, a leading representative of the Young British Art "and" Star of the show at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.
Glenn Brown has been a significant contribution to the international contemporary art, especially in the field of painting, his works that the synthesis of classical and modern, from the academic scope to popular culture.
During his career, Brown has inspiration from very different sources by producing at the same level Fragonard and Dal?, To the historic high and the fantastic images from science fiction. The English artist works on the first frame until it is in profound changes, thus creating a completely new work, but in the audience rise to something familiar and known.
Glenn Brown is lured by the nature of the reproduction of paintings radically change the quality of the originals. Size, color, surface texture and brushstrokes are the instruments by which the artist transforms famous pictures in "foreign" pieces. Through the work printed on the pictures, books or their reproductions projected on the surface of an empty paintings, Brown has a new wild beauty of the original source. The naturalistic color is putrid or kitsch, the numbers will be extended or expanded until it grotesque and the heavy mixture is quite flat with a meticulous presentation.
The British artist challenges the memory of the painting, a self-referential process that produces an astonishing result, he takes possession, with impressive precision, not the works which he applies to himself, but by the images of the works reproduced Books, magazines or the Internet. "I have no other choice than the possession of images that the world falls on me to take, or to implement them - Brown, USA - I was able to cheat and pretend that I do act differently, so I am extremely original, But it would be a fraud. I tend to go in the opposite direction to [...] people find it very difficult to admit how much they do not have originality. " And it is precisely this explanation Glenn Brown is capable of an original image-world, who build the present with samples from the past, and the wrong-foot the past confused by hybridization with images from science fiction iconography.
As the curator Francesco Bonami pointed out, "never before examined in such detail in the painting, using the existing language, avoiding the avant-garde revolutions, but at the same time again, the combination of various moments of the history of art, almost creating a extra-corporeal experience. viewers are forced not only to look at the picture before him, but they are also required for the model search paintings in her mind: if you are a work of Glenn Brown, you have the unsettling impression of where someone you know well, but who has turned into someone else, or mysteriously looks like someone else. The size of the work Glenn Brown lies in its ability to tell the endless changes in the history of painting, its decline and resurrection, the ability to stay young, while all around ages inevitably continue. With a sophisticated operation in plastic surgery, Glenn Brown created a new series of masterpieces from those times. We love and fear them. "
Elena Lanzanova
Arcadja Art Magazine
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