Glenn Brown (survey): Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
The Glenn Brown exhibition brings together the largest selection of the works of this highly revered painter of his generation. Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer.
Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the familiar into the alien. Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material. Naturalistic colour becomes kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque, while heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat. Often placing formal and aesthetic concerns over original subject matter and meaning, details from well-known works are isolated, manipulated, becoming subject matters themselves.
Glenn Brown was born in Hexam in 1966. From 1984 to 1992 he studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and then at Goldsmith’s College. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000.
Partners:
TATE Liverpool, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Curator for the Ludwig Museum, Budapest: Barnabas Bencsik
Artworks
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Glenn BrownThe Great Masturbator, 2006Oil on panel110 x 88cm
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Glenn BrownAnaesthesia, 2001Oil on panel105.5 x 83cm
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Glenn BrownLet me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London, I’ll show you something to make you change your mind, 1992Oil on canvas82 x 92 cm
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Glenn BrownLove Never Dies, 1993 This painting is a citation of the painting by Karel Appel, titled ‘People, Birds and Sun’ 1954, collection Tate Gallery, LondonOil on canvas70 x 49 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Day The World Turned Auerbach, 1991Oil on canvas56 x 50 cm
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Glenn BrownTelstar, 1995Oil on canvas mounted on board70 x 58 cm
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Glenn BrownYou never touch my skin in the way you did and you’ve even changed the way you kiss me, 1994Oil on canvas152.4 x 122.6 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Rebel, 2001Oil on panel84.5 x 70cm
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Glenn BrownThe Sound of Music, 1995 – 2007Table and oil paint76 x 90 x 80 cm (29.9 x 35.4 x 31.4 in)
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Glenn BrownTart Wit, Wise Humor, 2007Oil on panel144 x 108.5cm (oval)
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Glenn BrownDeep Throat, 2007Oil on panel152 x 122cm
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Glenn BrownSuffer Well, 2007Oil on panel157 x 120cm
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Glenn BrownSeventeen Seconds, 2005Oil on panel148 x 122cm
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Glenn BrownBöcklin’s Tomb (copied from ‘Floating Cities’ 1981 by Chris Foss), 1998Oil on canvas221 x 330 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Tragic Conversion of Salvador Dalí (after John Martin), 1998Oil on canvas222 x 323 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Aesthetic Poor (for Tim Buckley) after John Martin, 2002Oil on canvas220.5 x 333 cm
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Glenn BrownSearched Hard for You and Your Special Ways, 1995Oil on canvas mounted on board89 x 75 cm
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Glenn BrownAriane 5, 1997Oil on canvas mounted on board91 x 72 cm
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Glenn BrownJesus; The Living Dead (after ‘Jupiter Cloudscape’ 1982 by Adolf Schaller), 1998Oil on canvas205.7 x 326.4 cm
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Glenn BrownNever Forever, 1995Oil paint on acrylic and plaster36 x 29 x 26 cm
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Glenn BrownInternational Velvet, 2004Oil on panel157 x 122 cm
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Glenn BrownMisogyny, 2006Oil on panel159 x 122.5cm
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Glenn BrownOscillate Wildly (after ‘Autumnal Cannibalism’, 1936 by Salvador Dalí), 1999 By kind permission of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, SpainOil on linen175.5 x 391.5 cm
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Glenn BrownModern Movement, 2003Oil on panel120 x 86cm
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Glenn BrownOn Hearing of the Death of My Mother, 2002Oil on panel119 x 88cm
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Glenn BrownKill Yourself, 2002Oil on panel82 x 68.5cm
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Glenn BrownThe Holy Virgin, 2003Oil on panel114 x 76.5cm
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Glenn BrownLittle Death, 2000Oil on panel68 x 54 cm
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Glenn BrownNew Dawn Fades, 2000Oil on panel71.5 x 62 cm
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Glenn BrownKinder Transport, 1999Oil on panel67 x 57.5 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Real Thing, 2000Oil on panel82 x 66.5 cm
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Glenn BrownShallow Deaths, 2000Oil on panel70 x 57.5cm
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Glenn BrownWooden Heart, 2008Oil paint on acrylic over plaster and metal armatureSculpture 148 x 70 x 89 cm, Vitrine 176 x 88 x 200 cm
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Glenn BrownThe Alabama Song, 2007Oil on panel147 x 120cm
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Glenn BrownThe Osmond Family, 2003Oil on panel142.5 x 100.5cm
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Glenn BrownNausea, 2008Oil on panel155 x 120cm
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Glenn BrownWashington Sex (Stuart/Brown), 2008C-Type Print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive PaperImage 128 x 75 cm, frame 160 x 105 x 4.5 cmedition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 1, 2008Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured79.0 x 61.7 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 2, 2008
Layered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 2, 2008
Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured
77.8 x 61.3 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs -
Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 3, 2008Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured78.0 x 61.0 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 4, 2008
Layered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 4, 2008
Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured
78.0 x 59.8 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs -
Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 6, 2008Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured78.0 x 61.0 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Lucian Freud) 5, 2008Etching on Paper Somerset 300 gsm textured79.1 x 61.1 cm (image) 75.0 x 94.0 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 1, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm15.8 x 12.3 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 2, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm15.6 x 12.0 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 3, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm17.9 x 13.8 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 4, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm17.8 x 12.0 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 5, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm17.8 x 13.8 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portraits (after Rembrandt) 6, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm16.0 x 12.2 cm (image) 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet) 6 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Urs Graf) 1, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm28.8 x 19.5 cm (image) 40.5 x 30 cm (sheet) 4 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Urs Graf) 2, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm28.8 x 19.5 cm (image) 40.5 x 30 cm (sheet) 4 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Urs Graf) 3, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm28.8 x 19.5 cm (image) 40.5 x 30 cm (sheet) 4 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownLayered Portrait (after Urs Graf) 4, 2008Etching on paper, Velin Arches 300 gsm28.8 x 19.5 cm (image) 40.5 x 30 cm (sheet) 4 part seriesedition of 30 plus 5 artist's proofs
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Glenn BrownThe Organ-Grinder, 2009Oil paint on acrylic medium on metal armature97 x 77 x 58 cm
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Glenn BrownWar in Peace, 2009Oil on panel116 x 87 cm