Eva Maika Bruhn at Galerie Nixin - Brief Article

This novel exhibition in one of the storefront galleries that have sprung up quite through the vibrant art district in the Mitte section of former East Berlin featured works through Eva Maika Bruhn, a young German artist whose paintings present to view formidable depth and promise. upon view were four large, untitled, oil-and-acrylic canvases (each about 7 by the agency of 6 feet) and two smaller works upon paper, in which the artist moves an unusual merger of abstraction and figuration. Bruhn achieves rich surface fabrics and tense color relationships by dint of means of a variety of techniques, like as pouring, splashing and spraying, combined with meticulous brushwork. Her bring under rule matter is equally compelling. individual painting features a close-up rendering of a tongue, encircleed by countless red cell-like shapes that be like ripe berries, a seductive image that perhaps directs to the sense of taste. Another canvas exhibits two tongues nearly touching, which has more apparent sexual overtones.

individual of the most riveting paintings features the head of a baby goat in the upper portion of the canvas. The animal's fur has a sickly verdant cast and its head lies in a milky pond streaked with swirling rivulets of pink and gray, which overlays the lower half of the composition. Suggesting a spectacle of sacrifice, the work perhaps also touches on animal rights issues. Bruhn has indicated in a pres statement that the image consigns to a gourmet's delicacy made of kid meat simmered in its mother's milk.

Incorporating an not divisible by 2 mix of expressionist gestures and hard-edge patterning, the canvas that was hung upon the gallery's back wall have the appearances to reflect a personal iconography. The work at first appears totally abstract. A kaleidoscopic design made of numerous facets of verdant and white fills the lower left while upon the right, a large area of small, irregular black shapes trimmed in r give an inkling ofs a field of burning coals or lava. However, the light that appears to flicker across the surface quietly reveals a of the soul embracing couple. One figure's pink arm and the other's fulvid arm are visible against the lush background. The heads and torsos, however, are obscur by dint of a multicolored mist of splattered paint, as if the pair along with their passion, are caught in an irreversible state of dissolution.

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