"On Colour"Rosa Brun
curated by Alfonso de la Torre
FERNÁNDEZ-BRASO
Villanueva, 30. 28001 Madrid. Spain 
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September 15 > October 29, 2016
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The Fernandez-Braso Art Gallery presents for the first time an exhibition dedicated to
the artist Rosa Brun
(Madrid 1955). The show is part of the program
Apertura
2016,
organized by the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Madrid.
“Monk by the Seashore”, 1809-10 by C.D. Friedrich, one of the most emblematic pieces of German romanticism, has been for Rosa Brun an artistic and emotional reference throughout her career. A small figure contemplating the immensity of the creation through three elements, three planes of colour; beach, sea and sky. This religious, transcendental experience, acquired in the 19 th century an esthetic category: the sublime romantic; a concept that evolved throughout the History of Art until the middle of last century to acquire another name: the sublime abstract. Artists such as Clifford Still, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman show visual and emotional affinities with their predecessors. The figures and the call to nature are transformed into large expanses of colour that awes the spectator. Robert Rosenblum, the great North American historian and art critic who investigated and published this branch of art, wrote: ‘And not the least awesome thing about Still’s work is the paradox that the more elemental and monolithic its vocabulary becomes, the more complex and mysterious effects’.
Rosa Brun has always pointed out the importance of Rothko and Newman in her work. This is also underlined by the curator M. C. Cerullo , “the colourfields movement proposes the tre atment of the painting as an autonomous object. In the painting the colour is liberated of its denotative, related and limiting functions acquiring an independent value. It is no longer presented in small surfaces limited geometrically; the colour satura tes the large dimensions of the works. It is within this context that we should approach Rosa Brun’s work”.
Juan Manuel Bonet clearly expressed this in the text of the catalogue of the exhibition that was curated by Alfonso de la Torre On Colour . “ To und erstand the work of this artist, her pure strictness, her love of simple shapes and brilliant colours , her way of boldly combining different materials and going beyond the limits of the painting and her job, sometimes with approaches that take us towards t he territory of sculpture or even installations, obviously one must make reference to the minimal North American art and its ancestors, but also to its European counterparts –for example, the German pioneer Blinky Palermo”.
The exhibition that can be seen at the Fernandez-Braso Gallery, composed of some twenty pieces created in the past two years, is one step further in the coherent and progressive evolution of Brun , “raising different interpretations of the space and the matter, investigating the relation between the two, their perceptive implications, as well as the notion of limit”, in the artist’s own words. The paintings –or painted objects-, are formed by different planes “that overlap or cover showing lines and semi hidden borders that multiply the final vision of the work, redefining itself in function of the spectators’ point of view.
The titles of the works of the exhibition allude to oceans and seas, far away and exotic. Red, Black, Kara, Aral, Baffin, Bohai , Frisia , Wadden ... It is not by ch ance that the Latin term classicus comes from classis, literally float (naval), with which the romans tried to organize a geometric and esthetically coherent order in the startling chaos of the sea. We return to Friedrich. And once again to Rosa Brun .
Rosa Brun has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University as well as a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, where she works as a Professor and Coordinator of the Contemporary Arts Permanent Seminar. Also in Granada, in 1996, she showed her work in the Palace of the Counts of Gabia . In 2006, the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea of San Sebastian dedicated an exhibition to her. In 2013, Fernando Francés curated her exhibition in the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo of Malaga. Ros a Brun’s latest exhibitions in Madrid were held in the galleries Oliva Aruana and Pilar Serra. In Mexico DF, she recently showed her work in Nina Menocal . In February 2017, her art will be shown in the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente of Fuenlabrada, Madr id.
“Monk by the Seashore”, 1809-10 by C.D. Friedrich, one of the most emblematic pieces of German romanticism, has been for Rosa Brun an artistic and emotional reference throughout her career. A small figure contemplating the immensity of the creation through three elements, three planes of colour; beach, sea and sky. This religious, transcendental experience, acquired in the 19 th century an esthetic category: the sublime romantic; a concept that evolved throughout the History of Art until the middle of last century to acquire another name: the sublime abstract. Artists such as Clifford Still, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman show visual and emotional affinities with their predecessors. The figures and the call to nature are transformed into large expanses of colour that awes the spectator. Robert Rosenblum, the great North American historian and art critic who investigated and published this branch of art, wrote: ‘And not the least awesome thing about Still’s work is the paradox that the more elemental and monolithic its vocabulary becomes, the more complex and mysterious effects’.
Rosa Brun has always pointed out the importance of Rothko and Newman in her work. This is also underlined by the curator M. C. Cerullo , “the colourfields movement proposes the tre atment of the painting as an autonomous object. In the painting the colour is liberated of its denotative, related and limiting functions acquiring an independent value. It is no longer presented in small surfaces limited geometrically; the colour satura tes the large dimensions of the works. It is within this context that we should approach Rosa Brun’s work”.
Juan Manuel Bonet clearly expressed this in the text of the catalogue of the exhibition that was curated by Alfonso de la Torre On Colour . “ To und erstand the work of this artist, her pure strictness, her love of simple shapes and brilliant colours , her way of boldly combining different materials and going beyond the limits of the painting and her job, sometimes with approaches that take us towards t he territory of sculpture or even installations, obviously one must make reference to the minimal North American art and its ancestors, but also to its European counterparts –for example, the German pioneer Blinky Palermo”.
The exhibition that can be seen at the Fernandez-Braso Gallery, composed of some twenty pieces created in the past two years, is one step further in the coherent and progressive evolution of Brun , “raising different interpretations of the space and the matter, investigating the relation between the two, their perceptive implications, as well as the notion of limit”, in the artist’s own words. The paintings –or painted objects-, are formed by different planes “that overlap or cover showing lines and semi hidden borders that multiply the final vision of the work, redefining itself in function of the spectators’ point of view.
The titles of the works of the exhibition allude to oceans and seas, far away and exotic. Red, Black, Kara, Aral, Baffin, Bohai , Frisia , Wadden ... It is not by ch ance that the Latin term classicus comes from classis, literally float (naval), with which the romans tried to organize a geometric and esthetically coherent order in the startling chaos of the sea. We return to Friedrich. And once again to Rosa Brun .
Rosa Brun has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University as well as a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, where she works as a Professor and Coordinator of the Contemporary Arts Permanent Seminar. Also in Granada, in 1996, she showed her work in the Palace of the Counts of Gabia . In 2006, the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea of San Sebastian dedicated an exhibition to her. In 2013, Fernando Francés curated her exhibition in the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo of Malaga. Ros a Brun’s latest exhibitions in Madrid were held in the galleries Oliva Aruana and Pilar Serra. In Mexico DF, she recently showed her work in Nina Menocal . In February 2017, her art will be shown in the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente of Fuenlabrada, Madr id.
Inauguración :
Jueves 15 de Septiember 15 de 19.30 a 21.30 h.
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