Hardback, full colour, 48 pages, W212 x H271mm
Published to accompany the exhibition Bernard Frize: Hands On
at the Ikon Gallery, 3 June – 20 July 2003, this is the most
comprehensive exhibition of work by French artist Bernard Frize in the
UK to date. Combining recent painting with rarely seen sculpture and
photography, audiences will have an opportunity to see the impressive
stylistic and technical diversity of his work.
Frize has likened his various ways of making work to recipes. More
often than not he chooses paint as his main ingredient and then it
becomes a question of process and editing.
Frize makes crucial
decisions as to how to proceed with his painting and the rest is
virtually automatic. The repetition with which paint is applied to the
canvas leaves no room for any new inspiration that will significantly
effect the outcome.