Robert Delford Brown – Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics

ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics is the artist’s first museum exhibition following an active career of 50 years. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, designed and authored by artist-writer Mark Bloch, (NYC) who served as the exhibition’s guest curator.

Brown has remained in the vanguard of art since his arrival in New York in 1959, participating in Performance Art, Fluxus, Pop Art, Happenings and Correspondence art movements while formulating his own, unique creative vision. His work of the early 1960’s had a great impact at the time, forecasting contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst (carcasses in formaldahyde) and Han Hyo-Seok’s disturbing photographs of faces and bodies of raw meat. Throughout his early career, Brown encountered, communicated and collaborated with notable avant garde artists, including Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and others.

Exhibition catalogue was generously supported by Marc and Madlen Simon.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by The Talking Phone Book, a Publication of Hearst Holdings.