Markus Linnenbrink

In Marus Linnenbrink's latest exhibition at the Ana Serratosa gallery, "El río y el paisaje", colour is practically the great guest of honour at the party of all his works. A chromatic party in which greens, oranges, pinks, blues, blues, reds, yellows, violets... speak, laugh, communicate and sometimes even shout," as the exhibition curator Francisco Carpio tells us. Markus Linnenbrink's painting or sculpture has much in common with the expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. It is inevitable that we will notice the analogies between the two works, but what characterises and differentiates Linnenbrink is that this dripping or "dripping" is controlled. Unlike his predecessor, Linnenbrink gives the line a small percentage of the randomness that characterises the dripping technique of the American Expressionists. This is therefore a new approach to the more gestural side of the Abstract Expressionist movement, as it reproduces the principle of this discipline but denies it some of the freedom that painting had at the beginning of the 1950s.