Vocabulary

• Beats per Minute Paintings Made in an unlimited series of unique works, combines block colours or abstract colour fields with a recurring text.
• Cartoon Paintings A body of works that appropriates an original satirical cartoon by the American artist Ad Reinhardt made in the late 1950s.
• Conceptual Decoration Articulates Brüggemann’s interest in contradiction and paradox, themes which he returns to frequently in his work.
• Exit Door Forms part of a larger body of sculptures that replicate standard architectural features.
• Headlines & Last Lines in the Movies Comprised of unique works, Headlines are always taken from the news and the Last Line(s) are quoted from a list of dramatic films.
• Hi-Speed Contrast Paintings Subjects of reproduction and scale underpin the works in this series. Photographs of particular details are digitally augmented so as to become illegible.
• Hyper-Palimpsest 45 Text Pieces (1997-2019) are presented in juxtaposition with his Headlines and Last Line in the Movies (2019).
• Hyper-Poems ‘Slogans’ written as part of the greater body of his Text Pieces.
• Inverted Mirrors Reverses the function and legibility of a material object – facing a mirrored surface against the wall to eradicate reflection.
• Make Me Paintings Combines Brüggemann’s concern with painterly gesture as a form of performative action and his commitment to working in situ.
• Monuments for the Ceiling Comprises individual works assembled from fluorescent tubes that can be presented as individual sculptures or as an installation.
• Neon Obliteration Employs differently coloured and continuous neon tubing that is bent and overlapped to give the impression of a hastily scratched or drawn line.
• Note Paintings Notes are perceived as precursors to a final text, while in an artist’s studio refer to preparatory sketches or a visual shorthand of influences.
• Obliterated Mirrors Examines the relationship between the viewer and the art object, placing the spectator in ‘an existential position’.
• Obliterated Paintings Overpainted screenprinted images and text pieces with silver aluminium paint to the point where the original information becomes illegible.
• Outdoor Sculpture Clad in stainless steel and intended for outdoor installation, Brüggemann removes the binary of inner and outer.
• Puddle Paintings Employs elements such as handwritten words and combines them with the raw application of poured aluminium paint.
• Showtitles His proposal is to conceive over 1000 exhibition titles and to make them available to artists and curators through a website.
• Tautological Paintings Six grey paintings that display their actual price, Brüggemann states that what interests him is ‘the notion that people buy prices rather than works’.
• Text Pieces Fixed directly to the wall, the graphic identity of these vinyl texts remains consistent through the use of the Arial bold typeface.
• Time Paintings / Timeless Comprised of individual Time Paintings and installations. Its central motif is the use of a text taken from an earlier work entitled Time (2014).
• Trap Door / (Unconscious) Trap Door extends Brüggemann’s preoccupation with standard industrial assemblage.
• Trash Drawings Closely related to the eponymous paintings, here black and white copies of the artist’s notes are individually framed.
• Trash Mirror Boxes Comprises a large quantity of reflective glass boxes arranged in stacks of different configurations and numbers, reminiscent of standard packing cartons.
• Trash Paintings Feature silkscreened texts written or gathered by the artist overpainted with the word ‘trash’ as if Brüggemann were dismissing the previous output as being worthless.
• Untitled (Joke & Definition Paintings) Appropriates Kosuth’s series Art as Ideas (1966) and Prince’s Joke Paintings (1985) by combining the sober dictionary definitions with arcane jokes in a single canvas.