Cecily Brown “The end is a new start”
I visited Cecily Brown’s solo exhibition “The end is a new start.” The venue is BLUM & POE Tokyo (Harajuku).
This exhibition is the first for Blum & Poe and Cecily Brown’s first exhibition in Japan.
Cecily Brown is a female painter represented by Gagosian, one of the world’s top-tier galleries, and was born in London in 1969. She has become known for her large-scale paintings that combine abstract and figurative gestural mark-making.
The motifs referenced in her works range from classical and modern painting to pop music album covers, and she has continued relentless inquiry brimming with critique of sexuality and desire.
In this exhibition, the artist engages with two themes: her recent exploration into the historical representation of “shipwrecks,” and a new inquiry grounded in her own body of work built up over a career spanning three decades.
The prices for works by leading, era-defining top-tier artists can climb to tens of millions of yen even for smaller pieces, and only a handful of collectors can afford to collect them.
Cecily Brown’s paintings, with their layered, intricate, and delicate brushwork, felt like works in which the viewer’s imagination expands endlessly.
