Glenn brown artwork5/12/2023 ![]() He did it, he did it again, he did it too long. Those screen-like trompe l’oeil versions of Frank Auerbach’s painterly valleys and Karel Appel’s tube-fresh impasto blurts were strutting demonstration pieces: the eschatological combustions of a young man, not quite as smart as he imagines, apparently thrilled both by his own prodigious skill and to be witnessing, at first hand, the end times. ![]() ![]() Back in the early 1990s, as we’re reminded by this 60-work retrospective’s almost throwaway anteroom devoted to his earliest canvases, the British painter’s art was a virtuosic, frigid product of debates about painting’s demise. If anyone’s art was born dead, managed to die still further, and came to self-conscious and enhanced life later, it is Glenn Brown’s. Mark Twain once suggested that we ought to start out dead and live our lives in the foreknowledge of extinction. ![]() Glenn Brown, Suffer Well, 2007, oil on panel, 157x120 cm ![]()
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