MMX 1, 2010

Enrique Brinkmann   Famous Artists

An original print issued in an edition of thirty copies. The title, combining the Roman numeral for 2010 with a sequence number, follows the practice by which Enrique Brinkmann, born in Málaga in 1938, indexes works by year rather than describing them. Brinkmann has pursued for six decades an abstraction built on the line: a continuous, searching, filamentary mark that in his paintings on metal mesh passes literally through the support, so that drawing and structure become the same operation. The work has been read in relation to scientific imaging, to the diagram and to the neural network, though the artist has resisted illustrative interpretations. The unusually wide format, 76 by 107 centimetres, gives the line the horizontal extension his compositions require. The small edition of thirty places this among the more restricted print runs in the collection. Brinkmann was awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes in 2015; the Museo Reina Sofía and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga hold his work.