Jenny Brosinski (*1984 Celle, lives in Berlin) creates minimalist pictorial structures with an abstraction - touching on the here and now, her subjective perception and memory - with isolated figurative elements, inspired by the simultaneity of urban dynamics and the associated semiotics of metropolitan places, images and codes.
Her paintings demonstrate a radically reduced, loose approach: Splashes of colour in neon, dirt particles, rampant scribbling, isolated lines, small notations, scratches, smudges, overpainting and olive oil stains are arranged in a cool manner. Everything suggests a quick, spontaneous, perhaps even wilfully careless creation. The sophistication lies in the floating balance of the pictorial elements in relation to each other, which Jenny Brosinski achieves through an equally cautious, process-orientated approach.
The process of action and revision, of a very physical adding and subtracting, is an essential component of her painting. Approaching and docking onto the canvas with fingers, brushes or spray cans is followed by a deconstructive further development. With a convinced ‘yes’ to the intentional, yet playful, pentimenti, individual sections are repeatedly cancelled in the artistic struggle with lines, shapes and areas of colour - by showering off, wiping away, painting over or demonstratively crossing out text or image elements.
Often all that remains are traces of liquids and pigments on the surface. Breathed in, watered down, traces of use. Jenny Brosinski's formal reduction is the consistent result of her fascination with the sensual qualities of the materials used.
