Rosa Brun studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University in Madrid and completed her PhD at the University of Granada, where she later held the Chair of Painting. Her work follows the new paths taken by pictorial art in Spain in the 1990s. Since the late 1980s she has sought to break down the limits of the medium of painting, shifting from two dimensions to installations in 3D space and forging links with architecture. She paints on a variety of materials including aluminium and wood, which gives her work an expressive quality all of its own, with simple geometrical shapes on flat fields of contrasting, bright, acid colours and just a hint of expression and gesture. These elements are arranged on a wall, superimposed to form layers, juxtapositions and overlaps or as separate objects that interact with one another within an architectural space, using viewers’ own perceptions to provoke conflicting feelings of balance/chaos, heat/cold, heaviness/lightness, emptiness/fullness and verticality/horizontality. These paintings/sculptures/ installations renew and develop themes found in minimalist art and American colour-field painting. The clear influence of Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd and Barnett Newman, among others, links her work with the Post-Minimalist movements in Europe.
Her first solo exhibition at the El Brocense Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cáceres, 1985) was followed by many more, including events at the Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre (Donostia/San Sebastián, 2006), the New York Public Library (New York, 2007), the Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga (2013) and the Tomás y Valiente Centre (Fuenlabrada, Madrid, 2017). She has also taken part in collective exhibitions at such major venues and events as the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University (Miami, USA, 2011), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires (2011 & 2012), the Patio Herreriano Museum (Valladolid, 2011-2012); the Armory Show (New York, 2010-2011), Zona Maco (Mexico City, 2016) and the Fifth Chicago International Exhibition of Contemporary and Modern Art (USA, 2016), among others.
Rosa Brun studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University in Madrid and completed her PhD at the University of Granada, where she later held the Chair of Painting. Her work follows the new paths taken by pictorial art in Spain in the 1990s. Since the late 1980s she has sought to break down the limits of the medium of painting, shifting from two dimensions to installations in 3D space and forging links with architecture. She paints on a variety of materials including aluminium and wood, which gives her work an expressive quality all of its own, with simple geometrical shapes on flat fields of contrasting, bright, acid colours and just a hint of expression and gesture. These elements are arranged on a wall, superimposed to form layers, juxtapositions and overlaps or as separate objects that interact with one another within an architectural space, using viewers’ own perceptions to provoke conflicting feelings of balance/chaos, heat/cold, heaviness/lightness, emptiness/fullness and verticality/horizontality. These paintings/sculptures/ installations renew and develop themes found in minimalist art and American colour-field painting. The clear influence of Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd and Barnett Newman, among others, links her work with the Post-Minimalist movements in Europe.
Her first solo exhibition at the El Brocense Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cáceres, 1985) was followed by many more, including events at the Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre (Donostia/San Sebastián, 2006), the New York Public Library (New York, 2007), the Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga (2013) and the Tomás y Valiente Centre (Fuenlabrada, Madrid, 2017). She has also taken part in collective exhibitions at such major venues and events as the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University (Miami, USA, 2011), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires (2011 & 2012), the Patio Herreriano Museum (Valladolid, 2011-2012); the Armory Show (New York, 2010-2011), Zona Maco (Mexico City, 2016) and the Fifth Chicago International Exhibition of Contemporary and Modern Art (USA, 2016), among others.