Glenn Brown - In the Altogether

Glenn Brown's latest exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris sees him finding inspiration in old master drawings that he takes apart or grafts together, amps up with incommensurable colors and untamable swathes of invented brushstrokes. "The brushstroke appears to be floating," the artist says here in conversation with Ben Luke. "Marks fly off as if the energy of the body is so hyper that the space of the body is not enough to contain it, that it has to take in the space around it." Putting flesh on the bones of figures made of just a few sketched lines, Brown leads a historical dialogue from the position of a 21st-century artist about what it's like to be human.