With a sharp eye, the attention at its utmost level and an exacerbate sensitiveness, Paul Brunner is inquiring. His paintings oscillate between Orient and West, impregnated on one side by the precepts of the old masters, on the other by non figurative expressions in connection with lyric abstraction. His way of expressing is swinging between color field painting and black ink.
The current works of Paul Brunner swarm with elements : painted, erased, underlined, oriented, calligraphic, in series entitled Traces, Passages, Mobile-Immobile, Rive-Dérive or Transfiguration. They allow him to envisage different view points, angles of reflection, attitudes, in his research and his questioning the world.
In a subtle game of criss-crossing of black ink and colours, sometimes nearly erased for the ink, and skillfully shaded for the colours, with effects of transparency or materiality, the experienced eye of the artist analyses tirelessly his subjects, leading sometimes to unforseeable paths.
The richness of the painted fields solicites the glance of the spectator who is driven from pillar to post, like snaped up by the discovery, casting one’s eye with avidity over dense however fluid painted zones, with coats and tints cleverly orchestrated. Marked by an asserted gesture of the brush and signs evoking Chinese calligraphy, the reading inherent to each canevas, sometimes enigmatic, fascinates and hoodoos. Sometimes it shakes, like for example in the series Transfiguration, where the individual, portrayed, is maltreated, hurt in his expression, like an
echo of the confusing period we are going through.
In order to mark this event, a marvellous publication accompanies the show, illustrating most of the exhibited paintings.
An original, strong, poetic and contrasted work, an exhibition not to be missed !
Danielle Junod-Sugnaux
PhD Art Historian
Paul Brunner, of Swiss and French nationality, born in 1956 in Lausanne (CH), lives and works in Prilly near Lausanne. Member of Visarte Vaud since 1991. After a master in Sciences and education at the University of Geneva with, at the same time, a pratice of adult’s formation, he is active in the artistic field since over 30 years. Since 1986, numerous personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland (Geneva, Vaud, Valais, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Soleure, Basel) and abroad (France, Paris, Tokyo, Montreal) ; « music-painting » performances ; exhibition curator (Espace Arlaud, Espace Equinoxe, Silo) ; concept and realization of theater drops, teacher in visual arts. Long-time journeys in China and Berlin and many trips in Europe, India, Indonesia and Australia.
Work on cover : Traces XVI/19, 2019, acrylic painting and black ink on canvas,
100 x 100 cm
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