"These works pictorially intermix the inner and outer life. Within the act of painting, figurative objects are impulsively deconstructed while contents are intensified. Glaring surfaces are revealed by sharp incisions and turned into unexpected forms while new contexts arise. The oeuvre of Claus Brunsmann of the past 20 years is of significant matter and characterised by an increasing density. This concentration of energy provokes the artist into the unleashing of colour, creating an unmistakable power in the works of a painter who’s recurrent topic has been the role of art as the incarnation of ritual and spirituality."

Claus Brunsmann´s multilayered abstract paintings channel the viewers visual experience. These images characterize the artist’s continuing experimentation with color and spatial tension, oscillating between the figurative and the abstract, to create an open-ended painting whose aim might be the evocation of diverging possibilities in the act of seeing.

Die vielschichtigen abstrakten Gemälde von Claus Brunsmann kanalisieren die visuelle Erfahrung des Betrachters. Diese Bilder charakterisieren das fortwährende Experimentieren des Künstlers mit Farbe und räumlichen Spannungen, das zwischen Figurativem und Abstraktem oszilliert, um eine ergebnisoffene Malerei zu schaffen, deren Ziel es sein könnte, divergierende Möglichkeiten im Akt des Sehens zu evozieren.

Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand

"Painting, looked at from an historical point of view, may be seen as a cultural tool of memory. If it is, then the most diverse levels of this subjective consciousness that we call ‘reality’ converge in Claus Brunsmann's paintings.
They are characterised by individual layering and repeated coalescing of internal and external images – our personal universe, across which we peek into neighbouring worlds, parts of which we absorb, connect, maintain, omit or develop further in our minds. In this way, a subtle vibration of meaning occurs – corresponding to the physical properties and effects of light."

From: "Claus Brunsmann / Distorted Memories Of Nature", Kerber Publishers, 2015, Berlin

Claus Brunsmann, Ohne Titel, 2021, Liquitex und Öl auf Leinwand, 70 x 60 cm