Pia fries biography
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Pia Fries
Swiss painter (born 1955)
Pia Fries | |
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| Born | (1955-10-06) October 6, 1955 (age 69) Beromünster, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Painter |
Pia Fries (born 6 October 1955) is a Swisspainter.[1]
Biography
[edit]Fries was born in Beromünster, Switzerland and studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich.
Museum collections
[edit]- Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.
- Binding Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland.
- Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland.
- Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
- Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany.
- Niedersächsische Kulturstiftung, Hannover, Germany.
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas[2]
Selected exhibitions
[edit]- 1992 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
- 1997 P
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Pia Fries
We have pleasure in presenting new paintings bygd the Swiss artist trogen kvinna Fries (born in Beromünster in 1955, lives and works in Düsseldorf) at our next exhibition. Her work has recently been exhibited in the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, the Bernard Jacobson galleri in London and the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop. In May/June 2007, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur dedicated a comprehensive overview exhibition to work bygd this ex-pupil of Gerhard Richter. Her work fryst vatten also included in important private and public collections in Switzerland and abroad, for example the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Folkwang Museum Essen and the Neues Mu- seum, Nuremberg.
About painting bygd Pia Fries – gutzgauch élévateur:
A painting does not begin with an untouched canvas, on a vit plane. The picture surface is always so covered with existing ideas that it must first of all be wiped clean, washed down, even en hög byggnad eller struktur to strips.
It is better to forget than to remember when st
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Pia Fries, a former student in the masterclass of Gerhard Richter, has become one of the foremost representatives of European abstract painting. Her bold approach to painting reveals colours, forms and structures as individually ordered structures of the self, abandoning all traditional orders and values. Each image follows its own internal logic – seemingly evident to the viewer, yet at the same time utterly inexplicable.
The paint converges, merges, creates paths and traces, leaping out of the blank spaces she leaves. Her paintings are bold and daring. Flowing, stocking movements inform the entire image, at times enhanced and complemented by rhythmic inputs and manual interventions. They follow an inner logic that looks perfectly clear, and yet remains utterly inexplicable. For some time now, Pia Fries has been appropriating structures from found images, which she transfers onto the carrier by silkscreen and then uses as the starting point for her works. —Axel Jabl