"Chromatic tables archive with information", 2019, Oil and pigment on plywood, 265 x 244 cm.

"Chromatic tables archive with information", 2019, Oil and pigment on plywood, 265 x 244 cm.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" at Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Archive of ellipse and black texts", 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 232 x 244 cm.

"Archive of ellipse and black texts", 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 232 x 244 cm.

"Striped Oval", 2019, oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm.

"Striped Oval", 2019, oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm.

Installation view Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

Installation view Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

"Cobalt Blue Line", 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 146 x 114 cm.

"Cobalt Blue Line", 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 146 x 114 cm.

"Two planes," 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Two planes," 2019. Oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Three carmine lines", 2019, oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm.

"Three carmine lines", 2019, oil and pigment on plywood, 122 x 100 cm.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

"Cambrian of the Blue Stripe," 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas. 97 x 130 cm.

"Cambrian of the Blue Stripe," 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas. 97 x 130 cm.

"Pink Cambrian", 2018. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Pink Cambrian", 2018. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

"Cambrian III", 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas, 46 x 53 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Cambrian III", 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas, 46 x 53 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Cambrian IV", 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas. 46 x 53 cm.  Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Cambrian IV", 2017. Oil and pigment on canvas. 46 x 53 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

View of the showcase at " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

View of the showcase at " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

View of the showcase at  " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

View of the showcase at " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann".

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm.  Freijo Gallery, 2020.

Original drawing with pen and Chinese ink. 2016. 21 x 30 cm. Freijo Gallery, 2020.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint. Edition 5/30 + 3 PA. Printed by Denis Long.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint. Edition 5/30 + 3 PA. Printed by Denis Long.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint. Edition 1/30 + 3 PA. Printed by Denis Long.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint. Edition 1/30 + 3 PA. Printed by Denis Long.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint, chinecollé. Edition 4/30 + 3 PA.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint, chinecollé. Edition 4/30 + 3 PA.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint, chinecollé. Edition 4/30 + 3 PA.

"Suite, Chinese papers", 2016. Etching, aquatint, chinecollé. Edition 4/30 + 3 PA.

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" .

Installation view " Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann" .

Chromatic Archives. Recent Work by Enrique Brinkmann

Enrique Brinkmann

from January 8, 2020 to February 21, 2020

Enrique Brinkmann's recent work surprises us with its vitality and chromatic delicacy. 

In this recent work we observe a treatment of matter that takes us to his usual plasticity, but places us in levels of nuances that define his great mastery. He develops a very personal characteristic that stems from his desire to use different supports, which are intertwined between painting and the medium canvas, wood or paper, that is to say, grids, cardboard or industrial materials are used by the artist to leave a trace in painting of an industrial nature.

Since the late 1970s Brinkmann has been an abstract painter, who, regardless of trends, has developed a painting faithful to the chromatisms and abstractions of the 20th century. His continuity in this aspect turns him into an artist present in the collections of important museums. 

As Juan Manuel Bonet wrote in the text of the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition "Enrique Brinkmann. Towards the Light", which took place at the Municipal Museum of Málaga in 2007, "there is increasing clarity in Brinkmann's work during the late seventies and early eighties, a conquest of light, leaving behind the darkness, fleeing, to paraphrase a title of his, from the past. [...] Brinkmann approaches the battle of the painting as an activation of signs on a neutral field, as an intuitive surrender to the very gesture of calligraphy, something that makes it possible to speak of a programme that is no longer neo-figurative, surreal or fantastic, but that is linked in an increasingly evident way to the abstract and informalist programmes from which he had learned in his early youth. [...] The work of Brinkmann in the early nineties [...] is an entirely different work, of white writing, a work of Michauxian emergencies, which makes signs emerge in the white space of the canvas, the cloth or the paper. A work in silence, in whites, in blacks, in greys, in ochres."

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