Glenn Brown at the Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, 20 Feb - 10 May

Exhibition Description:

Tate Liverpool and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin will be presenting a major retrospective of the work of Glenn Brown. The exhibition will tour to Turin in Italy at the end of May.

Glenn Brown is one of the most revered painters of his generation and this retrospective will bring together the largest selection of the artist's work to date. He is inspired by 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.

Fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals, Brown uses elements of size, colour, surface texture and brushwork to transform original works from the familiar into the alien. He wildly embellishes his source material, from books to projections of reproductions, naturalistic colours becomes putrid or kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque and heavy impasto.

Glenn Brown was born in Hexam, UK in 1966. From 1984 to 1992 he studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and then trained at Goldsmith's College. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000.

Description:

Image: Glenn Brown
Shallow Deaths 2000
© Glenn Brown

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