CECILY BROWN

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Cecily Brown Interview | Take No Prisoners | Louisiana Channel | Cecily Brown is considered a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the century. We met the praised British painter at her New York studio for a talk about borrowing imagery from other artists, and how she has always responded to dark, scary art. “Art was something that seemed very glamorous and dangerous to me as a child.” Brown nurtured an early fascination with the “scary” art, such as Francis Bacon, and would rummage her parents’ art books for the very darkest pictures, such as a particular painting by George Grosz of a butcher shop with human meat in it: “I had sneak looks at it, like you might look at Playboy or something.” Brown, who had been painting naked women for several years, felt an urge to move on to painting men and boys. The painting ‘Young Spartans Exercising’ by Edgar Degas (1860) helped her move on to this: “Lots of artists are like magpies, where you steal or you take or you borrow what you need from somebody. But then obviously – and hopefully – it gets transformed.” This is characteristic of how Brown draws inspiration from her favourite painters and paintings, absorbing and changing images and ultimately making them her own. “The element of surprise has to be there.” Brown prefers to “contradict” herself, and to push her paintings to a degree where she actually risks losing something good. She sums up this approach by quoting her friend, German painter Charlene von Heyl: “Take no prisoners.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City |Cecily Brown was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in her studio in New York City | November 2014 | Camera: Pierce Jackson | Produced and edited by Kasper Bech Dyg |Copyright: Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden |

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Cecily Brown | Interview | Totally Unaware | Louisiana Channel | “The phone is obviously the death of society and culture.” With her powerful painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ as the point of departure, the influential British-born painter Cecily Brown here discusses how the sense of fragmentation in her work reflects her perception of our contemporary world. “I never think of painting as a cathartic thing, but I definitely think it’s a way of processing things.” Brown feels that one of the reasons why she became a painter, is that she wants to respond to the things she sees, and she attributes the sense of fragmentation, which pervades her work, to having lived in New York for 25 years: “The experience of living in a very busy city inevitably feeds into the way I see things and understand them.” Her paintings are made by drawing partly on the things lying around her in the studio, and she feels these many different images feed into her work both directly and indirectly. The central image in her painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ is based on a disturbing news photograph of a Muslim woman on the beach in Nice in 2016, who was forced to remove her burkini (a bathing suit respecting Islamic rules of female modesty) by four police officers: “It’s just a very violent image and seems very eloquent about our times.” Moreover, she feels that the many bystanders are part of what makes the photos so disquieting: “These white tourists are all just sitting around observing… they appear as complicit voyeurs.” Voyeurism, Brown continues, has always been a huge part of her work, where there’s nearly always a watching figure. In continuation of this, Brown adds that the figures in her painting can be seen to be unaware of each other though they are in the same physical space. This, she feels, is also the case in our world, where many people are so caught up in their phones, that they hardly notice each other: “One of the incredibly sad things about our time is how isolated people are.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as one of the central figures in the resurgence of painting since the turn of the century. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City | Cecily Brown was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark in November 2018 in connection with the exhibition ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom.’ In the video, Brown discusses her triptych painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ (2017) | Camera Klaus Elmer | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2018 Supported by Nordea-fonden

An evening with Cecily Brown | Contemporary Talks | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien | https://www.khm.at/ | Cecily Brown in conversation with Jasper Sharp | Born in London in 1969, Cecily Brown is among the most acclaimed painters working today. She graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1993, and has lived and worked in New York since 1995. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings at museums across the world, and her works are held in the collections of renowned museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Tate, London. She discusses her long-held interest in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, and her continuing engagement with the work of other historical artists including Titian, Nicolas Poussin and Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Cecily Brown im Gespräch mit Jasper Sharp Die 1969 in London geborene Künstlerin Cecily Brown zählt zu den anerkanntesten Malerinnen unserer Zeit. 1993 hat sie ihren Abschluss an der Slade School of Art gemacht, seit 1995 lebt und arbeitet sie in New York. Ihre Gemälde und Zeichnungen wurden weltweit in Museen ausgestellt und sind Teil der Sammlungen des Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, des Whitney Museum of American Art in New York und der Tate in London. Mit Jasper Sharp spricht sie über ihr langjähriges Interesse an den Werken von Peter Paul Rubens und ihre anhaltende Beschäftigung mit alten Meistern wie Tizian, Nicolas Poussin und Pieter Bruegel d.Ä.

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http://cecilybrown.com/

WIKIPEDIA

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Brown

CECILY BROWN

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Cecily Brown Interview | Take No Prisoners | Louisiana Channel | Cecily Brown is considered a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the century. We met the praised British painter at her New York studio for a talk about borrowing imagery from other artists, and how she has always responded to dark, scary art. “Art was something that seemed very glamorous and dangerous to me as a child.” Brown nurtured an early fascination with the “scary” art, such as Francis Bacon, and would rummage her parents’ art books for the very darkest pictures, such as a particular painting by George Grosz of a butcher shop with human meat in it: “I had sneak looks at it, like you might look at Playboy or something.” Brown, who had been painting naked women for several years, felt an urge to move on to painting men and boys. The painting ‘Young Spartans Exercising’ by Edgar Degas (1860) helped her move on to this: “Lots of artists are like magpies, where you steal or you take or you borrow what you need from somebody. But then obviously – and hopefully – it gets transformed.” This is characteristic of how Brown draws inspiration from her favourite painters and paintings, absorbing and changing images and ultimately making them her own. “The element of surprise has to be there.” Brown prefers to “contradict” herself, and to push her paintings to a degree where she actually risks losing something good. She sums up this approach by quoting her friend, German painter Charlene von Heyl: “Take no prisoners.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City |Cecily Brown was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in her studio in New York City | November 2014 | Camera: Pierce Jackson | Produced and edited by Kasper Bech Dyg |Copyright: Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden |

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Cecily Brown | Interview | Totally Unaware | Louisiana Channel | “The phone is obviously the death of society and culture.” With her powerful painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ as the point of departure, the influential British-born painter Cecily Brown here discusses how the sense of fragmentation in her work reflects her perception of our contemporary world. “I never think of painting as a cathartic thing, but I definitely think it’s a way of processing things.” Brown feels that one of the reasons why she became a painter, is that she wants to respond to the things she sees, and she attributes the sense of fragmentation, which pervades her work, to having lived in New York for 25 years: “The experience of living in a very busy city inevitably feeds into the way I see things and understand them.” Her paintings are made by drawing partly on the things lying around her in the studio, and she feels these many different images feed into her work both directly and indirectly. The central image in her painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ is based on a disturbing news photograph of a Muslim woman on the beach in Nice in 2016, who was forced to remove her burkini (a bathing suit respecting Islamic rules of female modesty) by four police officers: “It’s just a very violent image and seems very eloquent about our times.” Moreover, she feels that the many bystanders are part of what makes the photos so disquieting: “These white tourists are all just sitting around observing… they appear as complicit voyeurs.” Voyeurism, Brown continues, has always been a huge part of her work, where there’s nearly always a watching figure. In continuation of this, Brown adds that the figures in her painting can be seen to be unaware of each other though they are in the same physical space. This, she feels, is also the case in our world, where many people are so caught up in their phones, that they hardly notice each other: “One of the incredibly sad things about our time is how isolated people are.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as one of the central figures in the resurgence of painting since the turn of the century. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City | Cecily Brown was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark in November 2018 in connection with the exhibition ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom.’ In the video, Brown discusses her triptych painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ (2017) | Camera Klaus Elmer | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2018 Supported by Nordea-fonden

An evening with Cecily Brown | Contemporary Talks | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien | https://www.khm.at/ | Cecily Brown in conversation with Jasper Sharp | Born in London in 1969, Cecily Brown is among the most acclaimed painters working today. She graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1993, and has lived and worked in New York since 1995. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings at museums across the world, and her works are held in the collections of renowned museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Tate, London. She discusses her long-held interest in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, and her continuing engagement with the work of other historical artists including Titian, Nicolas Poussin and Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Cecily Brown im Gespräch mit Jasper Sharp Die 1969 in London geborene Künstlerin Cecily Brown zählt zu den anerkanntesten Malerinnen unserer Zeit. 1993 hat sie ihren Abschluss an der Slade School of Art gemacht, seit 1995 lebt und arbeitet sie in New York. Ihre Gemälde und Zeichnungen wurden weltweit in Museen ausgestellt und sind Teil der Sammlungen des Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, des Whitney Museum of American Art in New York und der Tate in London. Mit Jasper Sharp spricht sie über ihr langjähriges Interesse an den Werken von Peter Paul Rubens und ihre anhaltende Beschäftigung mit alten Meistern wie Tizian, Nicolas Poussin und Pieter Bruegel d.Ä.

HOMEPAGE

http://cecilybrown.com/

WIKIPEDIA

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Brown

CECILY BROWN

FILM / VIDEO

Cecily Brown Interview | Take No Prisoners | Louisiana Channel | Cecily Brown is considered a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the century. We met the praised British painter at her New York studio for a talk about borrowing imagery from other artists, and how she has always responded to dark, scary art. “Art was something that seemed very glamorous and dangerous to me as a child.” Brown nurtured an early fascination with the “scary” art, such as Francis Bacon, and would rummage her parents’ art books for the very darkest pictures, such as a particular painting by George Grosz of a butcher shop with human meat in it: “I had sneak looks at it, like you might look at Playboy or something.” Brown, who had been painting naked women for several years, felt an urge to move on to painting men and boys. The painting ‘Young Spartans Exercising’ by Edgar Degas (1860) helped her move on to this: “Lots of artists are like magpies, where you steal or you take or you borrow what you need from somebody. But then obviously – and hopefully – it gets transformed.” This is characteristic of how Brown draws inspiration from her favourite painters and paintings, absorbing and changing images and ultimately making them her own. “The element of surprise has to be there.” Brown prefers to “contradict” herself, and to push her paintings to a degree where she actually risks losing something good. She sums up this approach by quoting her friend, German painter Charlene von Heyl: “Take no prisoners.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City |Cecily Brown was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in her studio in New York City | November 2014 | Camera: Pierce Jackson | Produced and edited by Kasper Bech Dyg |Copyright: Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden |

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Cecily Brown | Interview | Totally Unaware | Louisiana Channel | “The phone is obviously the death of society and culture.” With her powerful painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ as the point of departure, the influential British-born painter Cecily Brown here discusses how the sense of fragmentation in her work reflects her perception of our contemporary world. “I never think of painting as a cathartic thing, but I definitely think it’s a way of processing things.” Brown feels that one of the reasons why she became a painter, is that she wants to respond to the things she sees, and she attributes the sense of fragmentation, which pervades her work, to having lived in New York for 25 years: “The experience of living in a very busy city inevitably feeds into the way I see things and understand them.” Her paintings are made by drawing partly on the things lying around her in the studio, and she feels these many different images feed into her work both directly and indirectly. The central image in her painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ is based on a disturbing news photograph of a Muslim woman on the beach in Nice in 2016, who was forced to remove her burkini (a bathing suit respecting Islamic rules of female modesty) by four police officers: “It’s just a very violent image and seems very eloquent about our times.” Moreover, she feels that the many bystanders are part of what makes the photos so disquieting: “These white tourists are all just sitting around observing… they appear as complicit voyeurs.” Voyeurism, Brown continues, has always been a huge part of her work, where there’s nearly always a watching figure. In continuation of this, Brown adds that the figures in her painting can be seen to be unaware of each other though they are in the same physical space. This, she feels, is also the case in our world, where many people are so caught up in their phones, that they hardly notice each other: “One of the incredibly sad things about our time is how isolated people are.” | Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Brown creates vivid, atmospheric depictions of fragmented bodies, often in erotic positions in the midst of swells of colour and movement. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as one of the central figures in the resurgence of painting since the turn of the century. Brown has exhibited extensively, including at The Saatchi Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo shows have also been held at prominent venues such as Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, New York and London, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Mannheim. She lives and works in New York City | Cecily Brown was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark in November 2018 in connection with the exhibition ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom.’ In the video, Brown discusses her triptych painting ‘Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ (2017) | Camera Klaus Elmer | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Channel | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/en | 2018 Supported by Nordea-fonden

An evening with Cecily Brown | Contemporary Talks | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien | https://www.khm.at/ | Cecily Brown in conversation with Jasper Sharp | Born in London in 1969, Cecily Brown is among the most acclaimed painters working today. She graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1993, and has lived and worked in New York since 1995. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings at museums across the world, and her works are held in the collections of renowned museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Tate, London. She discusses her long-held interest in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, and her continuing engagement with the work of other historical artists including Titian, Nicolas Poussin and Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Cecily Brown im Gespräch mit Jasper Sharp Die 1969 in London geborene Künstlerin Cecily Brown zählt zu den anerkanntesten Malerinnen unserer Zeit. 1993 hat sie ihren Abschluss an der Slade School of Art gemacht, seit 1995 lebt und arbeitet sie in New York. Ihre Gemälde und Zeichnungen wurden weltweit in Museen ausgestellt und sind Teil der Sammlungen des Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, des Whitney Museum of American Art in New York und der Tate in London. Mit Jasper Sharp spricht sie über ihr langjähriges Interesse an den Werken von Peter Paul Rubens und ihre anhaltende Beschäftigung mit alten Meistern wie Tizian, Nicolas Poussin und Pieter Bruegel d.Ä.