A prolific designer, Glenn Brown often engages in graphic comparisons with leading artists of the past, exasperating the figurative theme in order to produce a sort of grotesque entanglement, in which the original subject is concealed, be it a face, a group of figures, or a landscape. The artist reveals a profound and cultured knowledge of both formal and iconographic art. Brown will be installing twenty or so works, including paintings on canvas, drawings and sculptures – some of which will be on display for the very first time – generating a series of suggestive, if not unsettling, comparisons and references. Michael the Archangel by Pollaiolo, Atlas by Guercino and a series of drawing by Tiepolo and Piazzetta. The Bardini Museum houses several medieval and renaissance statuary masterpieces, including Charity by Tino da Camaino, and the Madonna of the Cordai by Donatello, as well as paintings of extraordinary quality such as the monumental Crucifix by Bernardo Daddi, St.
An experimental type of painting will once again be the protagonist at the Bardini Museum but with a figurative matrix, as a comparison with the art and design collections of the Florentine museum, famous worldwide for such an unusual and original staging of the antiquarian collection of Stefano Bardini, important art dealer and eclectic collector between the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The presence of Brown in Florence confirms the leading position acquired by the city in promoting and valorising the contemporary artistic language. the Serpentine Gallery and the Royal Academy in London, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, and the Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo in Turin. He has held major exhibitions in the Tate Gallery. Born in Hexham in 1966, one of the most genial and sophisticated artists of his generation, Brown has been well-known beyond the borders of the United Kingdome for at least two decades. In the wake of the success of the John Currin exhibition, the Stefano Bardini Museum will now be hosting the works of Glenn Brown from 12 June to 23 October. In collaboration with the Gagosian Gallery An exhibition promoted by the Municipality of FlorenceĬurated by Sergio Risaliti and Antonella Nesi
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