A self-taught painter, drawing artist and printmaker, Brinkmann’s entry into the art world was nevertheless swift and emphatic. He was part of the Picasso Group (dubbed as such after the visit its members paid to Picasso in Cannes) and travelled to Europe in the 1960s, more specifically to Germany. It may be said that his practice contains echoes of post-war abstraction, although it also shows similarities with the shapes and colours of Paul Klee (1879-1940). In the 1970s, Brinkmann began to suppress the figure, in a process of ongoing evolution of his painting which he currently creates on metal mesh supports.

In his works, his ghostly creatures, with their fantastic and dream-like appearance, are gradually diluted, tending towards an abstraction in which the presence of the figure is patent only through the titles, as in the case of this piece, whose title encourages us to look for that pareja or couple we intuit.

Eroded and altered until giving it an exceptional plasticity, the highly worked wood support encourages us to examine the work closely, to study this almost geological surface on which time seems to have created new forms, new features. The paper , the drawing marks and the areas of colour further conspire to create a magnetic piece of work.