Ben Brown Fine Arts
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Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT The fifth solo exhibition featuring the innovative works of the Brazilian artist and photographer is a showcase of his new pieces, which delve into concepts of perception, reality, representation, and materiality. Drawing inspiration from iconic works by Cubist and 20th-century masters, he employs a hybrid technique of photographing handcrafted, three-dimensional elements and reprocessing them…
Epistrophes and Heads
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT Recent paintings by the British painter are presented at his 5th solo show at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. The exhibition showcases the artist’s latest series, ‘Epistrophes’, where he explores the multitude of abstract possibilities that are inspired by a singular tree that he encountered over many winters at home. Also showcased are the…
The Floating World
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition is a part of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association’s (HKAGA) Summer Programme, with the goal of showcasing local talent and fostering the arts community in Hong Kong. The group show is inspired by Japanese ‘Ukiyo-e’ artworks, and invites viewers to study the fragile and fleeting state of our environment and reality.…
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Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT The Hong Kong-based English artist is an urbanist and architectural photographer who spent two years in New York to further develop his approach, which aims to create vibrant, sustainable, and democratic urban environments. His distinctive style of using pre-visualisation and camera-only manipulations creates subjective yet recognisable records of our time. The exhibition is part…
Phosphene
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT An acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist working in painting, large-scale murals, photography, video and sculpture, the Miami-born Brooklyn-based artist is known for his strikingly energised paintings and installations. His second solo exhibition in Hong Kong unveils 10 pulsating, intimate sized works executed during a fertile period of ‘en plein air’ painting, as well as two characteristically…
Uninterrupted Space
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT German photographer Candida Höfer, who studied under the influential conceptual artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher, in the 1970s, is best known for her photographs of large-scale, empty interiors. The exhibition brings together an extraordinary selection of photographs of libraries, theatres, museums and palaces, variously located in France, Italy, Mexico, Russia and Spain, all of…
stuck in neutral
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT Born in the United States, having studied in Florida, and currently based in New York, this is Swansea’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a multitude of new paintings, which are vibrant and masterfully rendered by the artist. The title of the exhibition refers to the slip into normal times from…
Sean Scully Solo Exhibition
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition is the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the celebrated Irish-born artist, Sean Scully (b.1945), featuring seven new paintings from the artist’s studio. Raised in London and subsequently based in New York, Scully formulated his own abstract language and inimitable style, based on the grid and infused with a spirituality and reverence for…
Ghosts of Empires
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT As a two-part group exhibition curated by Ghanaian-American writer and curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah, and inspired by British-Ghanian author and MP Kwasi Kwarteng’s eponymous book, ‘Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World’, the group show is an examination of how 12 artists from African and Asian diasporas engage with the legacies of slavery,…
Robert Indiana
Ben Brown Fine Arts 202 The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, AberdeenWHAT Famed artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018) is celebrated for his unique contributions to the Pop art movement, where he embraced the power of language, colour and form, while harnessing the American identity and his own personal history. During his career, he produced one of the most iconic bodies of work of the 20th and 21st…
