Art Zoot agenda

15 OCT – 28 NOV: COLLECTOR’S ITEMS NO.2 “HIGH DRAMA”

Imagem 11 — Martin Eder 'Strich' 2010. Oil on canvas, 110 x 80 cm. courtesy of the artist and Eigen + Art, Berlin/Leipzig

Collector’s Items No.2 “High Drama” features works from the collection of Hugo & Carla Brown at NL – The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space in London.

NL – The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space is an exhibition and project space in central London that presents the full spectrum of Dutch creative culture – from art and design to fashion and architecture – to a British audience.

‘High Drama’ is an exhibition drawn from the collection of Hugo & Carla Brown that picks up the themes of melodrama, theatricality, the Gothic and self-conscious staginess in the work of some of the most exciting contemporary artists within this collection and features works from the following artists:

Hernan Bas, Marc Bijl, Norbert Bisky, Iris Van Dongen, Martin Eder, Aaron van Erp, Cyprien Gaillard, Anthony Goicolea, David Haines, Erik Van Lieshout, Joep van Lieshout (AVL), Alisa Margolis, Erwin Olaf, Hans Op de Beeck, Ronald Ophuis, Grayson Perry, Christian Schoeler, Maaike Schoorel, Anne Wenzel.

The collection is not only significant for its comprehensiveness – works range from the Cobra movement through to some of today’s top young artists- but also for its contexts.

Hugo Brown’s passion for contemporary art, first shared with his wife Carla and later with their children makes this one of those rare and notable collections that has a strongly personal history to it. After all, the Netherlands was the birthplace of what we now understand as a ‘family household’ and, indeed, the development of visual art is strongly bound up with this. The Brown’s, like their predecessors in the sixteenth century, have brought art home.