Artists

Brett Ginsburg

Press release

Opening Reception: 29.10.2025, 5-7 pm

Munich IV presents a new body of paintings that examine how perception and image shift across time and medium. Drawing from his background in architecture and his use of digital scans and natural observation, Ginsburg compresses multiple vantage points into layered compositions that blur distinctions between surface and depth.
Expanding on his ongoing series of Multiplier and Carapace works, Ginsburg revisits earlier motifs and processes, translating them through new atmospheric conditions, material realities, and conceptual frameworks. The paintings fold mechanical and biological references, such as engine interiors, insect shells, and geological fissures, into hybrid, mutable forms that oscillate between recognition and abstraction.

Engaging the viewer through a mode of slow exposure, Ginsburg’s paintings invite edges and forms to emerge, dissipate, and reconfigure over time. His layered surfaces, built up against glass, alternately veil and reveal, creating a visual interference that mirrors the act of looking itself. These intervals between opacity and transparency, reflection and depth, become spaces of resonance where the internal and external seem to exchange positions.

Art historical echoes surface throughout the exhibition. The posture of Dumas' Human Tripod reappears as a spectral face, anchoring Ginsburg’s inquiry into reflection, replication, and psychological space. His muted, metallic palettes are evocative of structural color and mineral patina. In moving away from fixed recognition, Ginsburg positions painting as a proposition for perception, an open field where space expands and contracts, dislodging representation. What appears stable continually gives way, revealing painting as a site of encounter between image, surface, and thought in constant flux.