BERNARD FRIZE
STAND F4
(1949, Saint-Mandé, France)
Gringa, 2011, acrylic and resin on canvas, cm.h. 165 x 165
This work by Bernard Frize is part of a series created with acrylic and resin. For Frize, abstraction is a way for the artist, technique, and material to become one while each retains its freedom of action. This approach develops a vision not only of art but of artistic practice as a collaboration between human gesture and the intrinsic properties of what Frize views as “collaborators”: the gesture, the color, and the canvas.
Bernard Frize lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Selected solo exhibitions: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2015); Fondation Fernet-Branca (with Günter Umberg), Saint-Louis (2015); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2010); Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense (2007); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2003); Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2002); Den Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2002); mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (1999); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (1999); Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster (1990).
Bernard Frize participated in the Venice Biennale (1990, 2005), the Biennale of Sydney (1998), and the Shanghai Biennale (2000).