Stanley Brouwn is renowned as the most prominent representative of conceptual art in the Netherlands. The underlying concept always takes precedence over the formally austere aesthetics of his works. Brouwn began as a self-taught artist and, akin to the artists of the Zero movement, worked in a monochromatic and geometrically abstract style. However, he quickly outgrew the specific aesthetic of Zero. From 1960 onwards, he built a remarkable and consistent body of work. Through it, he explored the interplay between movement and distance. He used his own body as the measure of all things and developed his own system of measurement (the sb-foot, sb-el and sb-step). Using this standard, the artist delved into the tension between subjective experience of distance and its objective register.
Because of his growing importance to Conceptual Art www.ftn-books.com has focussed on Brouwn for some years now and fortunately has still some important publications available.
