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Tate Liverpool: Glenn Brown



20th February to 10th May 2009
Tate Liverpool and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin are organising a major retrospective of the work of Glenn Brown to be presented from 20 February to 10 May 09 in Liverpool and from 28 May until 4 October 2009 in Turin.

One of the most revered painters of his generation, this exhibition will bring together the largest selection of the artist's work to date. 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 putrid or kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque and heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat.

The exhibition, which includes over sixty paintings, sculpture and several new works, will be arranged to reveal the artist's diverse painterly strategies and preoccupations. Rooms will be dedicated to the artist's obsessive and meticulous copying of brushwork with works including You never touch my skin in the way you did, and you've even changed the way you kiss me (1994) and Telstar (1995). His relentless appropriation of Auerbach, returning to the same work again and again in order to transform the head of a figure is realised in works such as Kill the Poor(2000) and The Real Thing (2000). Further rooms will reflect Brown's playful use of kitsch and the sublime, through which the artist radically displaces familiar works by Dalí, Fragonard and John Martin. Brown's perceptive processes will also be explored. Often placing formal and aesthetic concerns over original subject matter and meaning, details from well known-works are isolated, manipulated, becoming subject matters in 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 trained at Goldsmith's College. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000.

Admission: £5.90 (£4.40 concessions)
Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB

tate.org.uk/liverpool


Glenn Brown - 'Nausea' (oil on panel).

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