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Cecily Brown

November 18–December 23, 2011
Rome

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Cecily Brown Installation view Photo by by Matteo Piazza

Works Exhibited

CECILY BROWN The Haunter, 2010 Oil on linen 97 × 103 inches (246.4 × 261.6 cm)

CECILY BROWN The Haunter, 2010 Oil on linen 97 × 103 inches (246.4 × 261.6 cm)

Cecily Brown, Dreamboat, 2011 Oil on linen, 55 × 77 inches (139.7 × 195.6 cm)

Cecily Brown, Dreamboat, 2011

Oil on linen, 55 × 77 inches (139.7 × 195.6 cm)

Cecily Brown, Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying, 2010 Oil on linen, 89 × 97 inches (226.1 × 246.4 cm)

Cecily Brown, Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying, 2010

Oil on linen, 89 × 97 inches (226.1 × 246.4 cm)

Cecily Brown, The Green, Green Grass of Home, 2010 Oil on linen, 97 × 151 inches (246.4 × 383.5 cm)

Cecily Brown, The Green, Green Grass of Home, 2010

Oil on linen, 97 × 151 inches (246.4 × 383.5 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Cecily Brown.

Presenting a world that pulses with excesses and appetites, Brown explores the breadth of human experience in tactile oil paintings. Broadly inspired by the history of painting—from Rubens and Veronese to the muscular expressionism of Willem de Kooning—Brown’s personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative, freeing subject matter from its original context and positioning it within a new aesthetic reality.

Submerged within vigorous gestural abstractions are scenes in which tangles of flesh dissolve into sensuous textures. In the dense scenario of The Green, Green Grass of Home (2010) flickering figures are enfolded in vivid landscapes of lilac, charcoal, and burnt orange. In The Haunter (2010) a yawning orifice opens up in a sea of deliquescent color that is smeared and wiped across the support. In Handsome Stranger (2010) and Wake, Awake for Night is Flying (2010) anatomical silhouettes—the ball of a foot, the crook of an elbow—can just be made out. Eschewing fixed meaning, Brown’s paintings reflect the flux of life through fragmentary glimpses of form.

Gagosian è lieta di annunciare una mostra di nuovi dipinti di Cecily Brown.

I tattili dipinti di Brown indagano la sfera dell’esperienza umana, presentando un mondo che freme di eccessi e voracità. Ispirandosi ampiamente alla storia della pittura—da Rubens e Veronese al vigoroso espressionismo di Willem de Kooning—l’artista costruisce una visione personale che trascende le nozioni tradizionali di genere e narrativa, svincolando così il soggetto delle sue opere dal loro contesto originale e collocandolo in una nuova realtà estetica.

All’interno di questi dipinti, caratterizzati da una forte gestualità astratta, si intravedono, come sommerse, scene di corpi attorcigliati dissolte in voluttuose pennellate: nel fitto scenario di The Green, Green Grass ofHome (2010), vividi paesaggi color lilla, grigio e arancione scuro avvolgono figure tremolanti. In The Haunter (2010), da un profondo foro emerge un’esplosione di colore vischioso, steso fino ad invadere i bordi della tela. In Handsome Stranger (2010) e Wake, Awake for Night is Flying (2010), sagome anatomiche—come la punta di un piede, la piega di un gomito—si percepiscono appena. Sfuggendo a prefissati significati, i dipinti di Brown rispecchiano il flusso della vita attraverso scorci frammentari di forma e struttura.