Pia Fries: Painting 1991-2006 - Hardcover

Fries, Pia; Good, Paul; Hickey, Dave; Liesbrock, Heinz; Schwarz, Dieter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3937572694 ISBN 13: 9783937572697

Publisher: Richter Verlag, 2007

Synopsis

Pia Fries combines a gluttonous love of thick paint with an energetic pleasure in driving it across the picture plane, so that one paint cluster leads or smears into another. More recently she has begun to deploy collage elements, heightening this 'pinball' method of composition in which paint dialogues with print. Dave Hickey writes of Fries' painting that "their exuberance promises the comforts of expression and delivers the randomized, chemical residue of industrial culture." This beautifully made volume from Richter surveys the Swiss-born painter's works from 1990 to 2007, and is therefore the broadest overview of her sensuous art to date.

About this title

Synopsis:

The Swiss painter Pia Fries studied in the 1980s under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. Her paintings are defined by how and in what form she applies paint; composition and colouration are not the sole determinants of the way they look. Rather paint as material - its surface producing patterns and criss-crosses - generates painterly suggestions. Like islands, the paint marks hover above a white ground, either isolated or linked by colour trails and strands. In recent years, she has added a new element to her work: serigraph prints that compete with the painted areas to create a trompe l' il effect. This publication presents a comprehensive survey of her paintings over the past 15 years. This title was published to accompany the exhibition Pia Fries: Paintings 1990-2007 at Kuntsmuseum Winterthur April - June 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Richter Verlag
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3937572694
• ISBN 13: 9783937572697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160