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Christopher Le Brun

CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN

Phases Of The Moon Lisson Gallery 18 May–3 August 2024 Beijing
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Christopher Le Brun returns to China with a new series of paintings, following previous exhibitions at Lisson Shanghai in 2019, a solo exhibition at The Red Brick Art Museum, and a dual presentation with Su Xinping at MoCAUP, both in 2021. The highlights of the presentation include Phases of the Moon, a multipanel painting revealing the cyclical nature of Le Brun’s practice with a lunar motif that traces back to one of his earliest oil paintings; and Lontano, a triptych which shares its title with a piece by the composer Gyorgy Ligeti written in 1967, epitomising Le Brun’s belief that painting should primarily have a sensual and emotional appeal. (Image: Christopher Le Brun, Lontano (detail), 2023)

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About the Artist

Christopher Le Brun is a painter, printmaker and sculptor based in London. Born in Portsmouth in 1951, he trained at the Slade and Chelsea Schools of Art, London. In his early career, he was a double prizewinner at the John Moores exhibitions (1978, 1980), also showing in the Venice Biennale (1980) and the ground-breaking exhibition Zeitgeist, 1982 at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin. His recent solo exhibitions include Albertz Benda, New York, USA, 2017; The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, FL, USA, 2017; Colnaghi, London, UK, 2015; Friedman Benda, New York, USA, 2014; New Art Centre, Wiltshire, UK, 2010, and The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, 2008.

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