Bernard Frize
1954 (Saint-Mandé)
Living in : Berlin et Paris
Working in : Berlin et Paris
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Artist's gallery
What can I do with a paintbrush?" says Bernard Frize at the turn of a cartel - that of Mailles (2012). How far will this brush take me and what will it allow me to say, to express about him, about me, about our encounter? I always try to ensure that there is not only one thing on the painting, one thing shown, but that there is a paradox, an antagonism, a difficulty at work. I think it's more like this: I try to have a confrontation at work between things."
Everything is said. Or almost. With Frize, even if his approach is based on the application of a discourse and a method, everything is never completely finished. Chance is always allowed. Better, it is expected. As the accident. So as to oblige the artist, just in case, to compose with what he had not anticipated. Strategy and paradox thus find in him the conditions of an unpublished conjugation. And above all, these counterparts offer to painting the possibility of an infinite variation, of an open seriality.
Living in : Berlin et Paris
Working in : Berlin et Paris
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
What can I do with a paintbrush?" says Bernard Frize at the turn of a cartel - that of Mailles (2012). How far will this brush take me and what will it allow me to say, to express about him, about me, about our encounter? I always try to ensure that there is not only one thing on the painting, one thing shown, but that there is a paradox, an antagonism, a difficulty at work. I think it's more like this: I try to have a confrontation at work between things."
Everything is said. Or almost. With Frize, even if his approach is based on the application of a discourse and a method, everything is never completely finished. Chance is always allowed. Better, it is expected. As the accident. So as to oblige the artist, just in case, to compose with what he had not anticipated. Strategy and paradox thus find in him the conditions of an unpublished conjugation. And above all, these counterparts offer to painting the possibility of an infinite variation, of an open seriality.
Artist's exhibitions
Bernard Frize. Sans repentir
29/05/2019 - 26/08/2019(Paris) Centre Pompidou
Bernard Frize - Günter Umberg
16/05/2015 - 04/10/2015(Saint-Louis) Fondation Fernet-Branca
La peinture, mode d’emploi
12/05/2012 - 26/08/2012(Montbéliard) Le 19, Centre régional d'art contemporain
Publicité
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De leur temps (3), 10 ans de création en France : le Prix Marcel Duchamp
06/11/2010 - 13/02/2011(Strasbourg) Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg
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