Stanley Brouwn
1935 - 2017
Born in Paramaribo (SR), lives in Amsterdam (NL).
Stanley Brouwn (1935, Suriname, lives in Amsterdam) moved to the Netherlands in 1957. A representative earlier work is the now famous This Way Brouwn, a series of ‘drawings’ made by passers-by asked for directions. Brouwn dedicates himself to intense explorations of measurement. The movement from a to b and the distance between them is of central importance in his art, which makes tangible the tension between abstract measures (the metric scale) and embodied measures such as the ‘step’. Size is essential to the work, and photographic reproductions are not allowed. Brouwn is exemplary in following his ideas logically and rigorously.
Works
>Stanley Brouwn, This way Brouwn, 1964.Drawing, ink, paper, 32.9 x 25.5 cm.
>Stanley Brouwn, Stanley Brouwn - One distance, 1981.Book, ink, paper, 20 x 20 cm, edition of 1000, publisher : Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven & Stanley Brouwn.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Chris Reinecke - Haben Sie Zeit zum Lesen?. 14 May 2022 - 21 August 2022.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: DE INTERNATIONALE - Museum of Affects. 26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012.
> Exhibition: The collection XXIX – Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986. 20 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Ensemble: Artist Books.
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> Ensemble: Huis A 37 90 89.
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> Ensemble: kunstenaarsboeken uit de jaren '80 [artists' books from the 80s].