Glenn Brown
Subtitle: come to dust
Contributors: Kunzru, Hari, 1969- contributor; Bray, Xavier, interviewer; Gagosian Gallery (London, England)
Publisher: Gagosian
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781938748639
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Come to dust
Work titles: Glenn Brown (Gagosian Gallery (London, England))
Description: For Brown, one of Britain's most renowned contemporary artists, the past and present are treasuries of raw material, offering countless images, titles, and techniques to be combined, appropriated, and deconstructed. Mining an extensive knowledge of art history, as well as of literature, music, and popular culture, Brown creates complex and sensuous works of art that are resolutely of our time. The title of exhibition, taken from a song in Shakespeare's play Cymbeline, evokes the ineluctability of death. The exhibition, comprising oil paintings, drawings in period frames, grisaille panel works, etchings, and sculptures, attests to the ever-intensifying dexterity with which Brown employs paint, content, and form. It teems with contrasts and contradictions, collapsing time, and allowing different, often opposing, references to exist simultaneously.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Gagosian (20 Grosvenor Hill), London, from January 24-March 17, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209).
Table of contents: title: From 'Cymbeline' / William Shakespeare; title: Frà Pandolf's hand / Hari Kunzru; title: Glenn Brown and Xavier Bray in conversation.