Cecily BrownThe Spell

Daniel Kehlmann, the internationally most successful German author of the 2000s with his novel “Measuring the World” (2006), writes in this elegant little book about Cecily Brown’s most recent pictures: “To put it more soberly: Cecily Brown’s art shows how superficial and uninteresting the apparent opposition
between object and abstraction is. Undoubtedly, constructivism is right about one thing: Out of a jumble of impressions, according to our own not exactly reliable rules, we ourselves assemble a fragile model. After all, we don’t simply observe our surroundings, we move through them, thus our external world is perpetually disintegrating, rearranging itself in ever-changing ways, and only the constant work of our consciousness maintains the appearance of consistency. Cecily Brown doesn’t defamiliarize the world, she paints it as it actually is, a play of color and shadows.”

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