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Pia Fries

Abstract Art

October 15, 2014

A contemporary Swiss artist, Pia Fries is one of the foremost representatives of European abstract painting. She uses photographed and silkscreened elements in her work alongside and under and against fantastic piles of caked, troweled, scraped and smeared oil paint.

Born in Beromünster, Switzerland, Fries currently lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich. She studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986. As the artist explained herself, she learned from Richter not any specific theory of painting but the belief that painting was something that “you can do today.” She has exhibited her work in venues such as Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop and Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon. Her work is in numerous collections, such as Aagauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Binding Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland and Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany.

Her paintings are characterized by extroverted passages of paint that nearly always surface and submerge from areas of flat white ground. In he process, she uses palette knives, squeegees and extruding tools that she makes herself, loading paint in massive quantities onto snowy white panels.

Pia Fries lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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