Beautiful image gallery of paintings on paper by Robin Bruch on view at Mathew Gallery, Berlin, on view through October 20, 2012.

An essay by David Reed accompanies the exhibition. Reed writes: "The painting I saw by Robin Bruch [at Bykert Gallery in the mid-70s] offered new possibilities by combining geometric forms with rough direct, painterly mark making. The surface brought together two kinds of painting that seemed previously to belong in separate categories and impossible to combine. The painting's structure was made of interacting triangular forms. In most shaped-canvases, an influential method of structuring paintings at the time, including Frank Stella's work, interior forms followed the shape of the support. Robin Bruch's painting broke that model, opening up a painterly space but without denying the importance and physicality of the support on which the triangles were anchored."