Zwischen Abstraktion und Wirklichkeit - Bräuniger, Stefan

But can’t he? What about the pictures of roses seen
from behind which he used to paint for a time? The
slab of butter, the Becel margarine, the Buco cream
cheese that were all his regular subjects before the
flowers and fruit? Which he showed realistically and
from above. The green wild-berry-flavour jelly and
Dr. Oetker’s Black Grape Whip?
If you take this into consideration too, you still find
in his work, with its heightened perception of the
material world, this certain element that remains
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irritable and edgy – even, and especially, with a
motif that is as basically commonplace as flowers.
Stefan Bräuniger turns it into something new. He
finds a form of expression for it in his painting that is
always a balancing act, always on a knife edge
between monumentally overdoing everything, getting
to the core of things and observing them from a
distance. His art interprets, or rather depicts, the
real world yet by a hair’s breadth deliberately avoids
doing only that. And that is what is so thrilling!