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A long story
17/12/2019

A long story

TheStudio d'Arte Raffaellipresents an overview of the work of one of the artists with whom he has been collaborating for the longest time, the American James Brown, who from the 1980s to the present day has undergone continuous phases of experimentation, from graffiti to primitive art, totemic sculpture, to abstraction. The title of the exhibition "A Long Story" refers both to the long relationship between the artist and the gallery, and to the narrative component - constantly changing - present in the works of James Brown, since the first works, in which the artist was approached to Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.


If in its initial phase figuration played a fundamental role, in the mid-1980s James Brown's painting became more material and spiritual, placing a shamanic conjunction between a human being and a divine being, which continued up to the most recent works. In the series of works "Opus contra Naturam" (on show at the Gam of San Marino in 2003), James Brown turns his attention to materials, using collage combined with painting. It is a period rich in references to the travels and cultures of the world, in which Brown recovers ancient anthropological models and re-elaborates them according to a coherent and rigorous aesthetic. This phase comes first the most recent, intense series of works: it deals with research on the sky, on the motion of the stars, on eclipses, visualized by the artist as a multisensory phenomenon starting from the summer of 1999.


The phases of the journey of James Brown are investigated in this exhibition at the Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - his reference gallery in Italy - through a long exhibition history, a sort of monograph aimed at giving back the pregnant portrait of an artist who has always moved with discretion, whose international value has been widely recognized by exhibitions and projects in prestigious institutions such as the GAM of Turin, the MAGI '900 in Bologna, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca - just to name a few.

The exhibition will be on show from the 5th of December to the 31st of March 2020.

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