Rosa Brun

Rosa Brun - Leonidas

Technique: Oil, canvas, mixed media and wood

Artist Biography: She studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained a PhD at the University of Granada, currently Professor of Painting. Her work addresses the pictorial problems within new ways for abstraction that develops in the Spanish scene of the nineties. Since the late eighties her painting disarticulates the limits of the medium, from the purely two-dimensional to the spatial installation and the relationship with architecture. The use of supports in materials such as aluminum or wood, iron, glass, paper? that give different expressive qualities to the painting, the simple geometric forms in flat fields of color, in strong, acid and contrasting tonalities, with a light expressive and gestural invoice, define his works that are arranged on the wall, one on top of the other - forming strata, juxtapositions or overlaps - or as free-standing objects interacting with each other in the architectural space, taking into account the viewer's perception to create in him contrasting sensations of balance-chaos, heat-cold, weight-lightness, emptiness-fullness, verticality-horizontality. This painting-sculpture-installation reactivates and develops issues that derive from minimal art or American color field painting with reminiscences of Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd or Barnett Newman, among others, which connects his work with the European post-minimalist movements. His works are included in important public and private collections such as the "Reina Sofia Museum" in Madrid, "Helga de Alvear Contemporary Art Museum", Caceres, "Patio Herreriano Museum", Valladolid, "La Caixa Foundation", Barcelona, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, "CAC" in Malaga, "CAAC, Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art", Seville, "Artium Contemporary Art Museum", Vitoria, "Bank of Spain" Collection ... among others.