Jenny Brosinski - by Paul Carey-Kent & Larissa Kikol Hardcover

Book Synopsis

Jenny Brosinski's (b. Celle, 1984; lives and works in Berlin) paintings in large formats look like uncoordinated abstract compositions with traces of wear deliberately left in place. This brings their materiality to the fore and reveals the creative process. Expressive oil paint on unprimed canvas, spray-painted lines, typographic elements, shoeprints, or pieces of masking tape on the canvas: on the one hand, these are experiments and statements; on the other hand, they are engagements with painting as such. The artist added sculpture to her repertoire in 2019, making figurative and sometimes colorfully painted imaginary beasts in bronze or stone-- more evidence of her subtle sense of humor, which also manifests itself in her pictures and especially in their titles.

About the Author

Paul Carey-Kent is a Curator and writer available to write catalogues, reviews, articles of all sorts on contemporary art. Current work is mainly for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, Border Crossings and STATE in print, plus Photomonitor, FAD and ArtLyst online. Larissa Kikol (1986*) is a freelance art critic and art historian. She writes for Kunstforum International, Monopol Online, Die Zeit, art das Kunstmagazin, Die Kunstzeitung, mare die Zeitschrift der Meere, Spiegel Online and Halle 4 - the online magazine of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, among others. She also writes for artist catalogs, museum publications and gallery exhibitions.