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Room 7
The figure and its problematic representation in paint throughout history is something Brown has consistently returned to for examination. 'Representing a human being is such a competitive, inventive and bizarre form of painting that I feel I can't ignore it.' Brown treats paint almost as if it is a living organism – he has referred to it on equal terms with flesh. Strategies such as turning the body upside down and even inside out, isolating body parts or satirising traditional poses from art history, question the processes and politics of transferring people to paint. The paintings in this room further reveal Brown's characteristic ambiguity of form, moving from the figurative to the abstract and back again via the tragicomic, anthropomorphic blobs of The Hinterland, Seventeen Seconds and International Velvet.
Works in this room
- Led Zeppelin 2005
Oil on panel
122 x 86.4 cm (48 x 34 in)
Private Collection, London - America 2004
Oil on panel
140 x 93.5 cm (55.1 x 36.8 in)
Stefan T. Edlis Collection - The Hinterland 2006
Oil on panel
148 x 122.5 cm (58.2 x 48.2 in)
Private Collection - International Velvet 2004
Oil on panel
157 x 122 cm (61.8 x 48 in)
Collection the artist - Seventeen Seconds 2005
Oil on panel
148 x 122 cm (58.2 x 48 in)
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada - Petrushka 2000–2002
Oil paint on acrylic and plaster, vitrine
125 x 60 x 60 cm (49.2 x 23.6 x 23.6 in)
Collection David Teiger - The Revolutionary Corps of Teenage Jesus 2005
Oil on panel
145.1 x 97.2 cm (57.1 x 38.2 in)
Collection David Teiger - Asylums of Mars 2006
Oil on panel
156.5 x 122.6 cm (61.6 x 48.2 in)
Collection David Teiger