Cecily Brown: The Spell

Cecily Brown : Le charme Daniel Kehlmann, le plus grand auteur allemand à succès des années 2000 avec son roman « Les Arpenteurs du monde » (2006), écrit dans cet élégant petit livre à propos des derniers tableaux de Cecily Brown : « On peut aussi le dire plus sobrement : l'art de Cecily Brown montre à quel point l'opposition apparente entre objet et abstraction est superficielle et inintéressante. Car le constructivisme a raison sur un point : nous assemblons nous-mêmes, selon nos règles personnelles pas spécialement fiables, à partir d'un fouillis d'impressions un modèle mobile et fragile. En effet, nous ne nous contentons pas d'observer notre entourage, nous nous déplaçons à travers, ce qui fait s'effondrer en permanence notre monde extérieur, avant de s'ordonner de nouveau et d'une manière toujours différente, et seul le travail permanent de notre conscience nous donne l'apparence de la constance. Cecily Brown ne distancie pas le monde, elle le peint tel qu'il est réellement, un jeu de couleur et d'ombre. »

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CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin: 17/9 29/10/2022

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Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraß e in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few. Catherine Foulkrod is a writer of fiction and essays based in Naples, Italy. Her words can be read in The Believer, New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Bookforum, El Malpensate, elsewhere. She is currently working on a psychosomatic novel and a collection of small miracles. She has received fellowships, residencies and scholarships from BRACT Tricase; Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia; the Vermont Studio Center; the New School; and Brown University. Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraß e in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few. Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel " Measuring the World", 2006, is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Sü skind's " Perfume" released 1985. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006. All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's SPIEGEL bestseller list and were translated into English. Cecily Brown is a leading contemporary painter, whose work embraces both representational and abstract elements in sensual depictions of figures and nudes. Brown was born 1969 in London, and attended the Slade School of Fine Art; she later studied printmaking and draftsmanship in addition to painting. She moved to New York in the early 1990s, quickly receiving critical acclaim for her painted works, which feature abstracted images of human forms, often engaging in sexual activity, in rich colors and animated brushstrokes. Her works draw on the legacies of Lucina Freud or Willem de Kooning.