VISUAL ART BY BRIGITTE YOSHIKO PRUCHNOW

Rainbow Warrior

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Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow’s photorealistic paintings dissolve into pure painterly structures once looked at closely. Light and shadow on different matters and surfaces translate into patterns, which lead to a sharpened sense of vision of the viewer. Her compositions with unusual framing and angles reveal her background as filmmaker as well as her heritage from Japanese wood prints. her brush- and pen-work follow fluid movements similar to Chinese ink painting or calligraphy. Sometimes she experiments with different materials, such as raw unprimed linen, cloth applications, silk thread stitching and modeling paste in order to make the structure of different depicted surfaces even more tangible.

Her images have a calm quality which allows the viewer to step out of the often forgetful stream of time and life.