Lot 169†,AR
Bernard Frize(French, born 1949)Manufacture Inversée 2007
acrylic and resin on canvas
165 by 165 cm.
65 by 65 in,
This work was executed in 2007.
acrylic and resin on canvas
165 by 165 cm.
65 by 65 in,
This work was executed in 2007.
19 October 2011, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £16,250 inc. premium
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Bernard Frize (French, born 1949)
Manufacture Inversée
2007
acrylic and resin on canvas
165 by 165 cm.
65 by 65 in,
This work was executed in 2007.
2007
acrylic and resin on canvas
165 by 165 cm.
65 by 65 in,
This work was executed in 2007.
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2007
"There is coherence between the formal aspect of the works and what is brought to our thoughts. The beauty comes from the perception that we are engaging in a visual experience that precipitates our mind."
The artist in conversation with Paul Carey-Kent, Art World, December 2007, p.127
Originally influenced by the French Supports/Surfaces group, Bernard Frize has been at the forefront of the abstract art movement for the past three decades. Through the development of several idiosyncratic methods, the artist would for example ask his team to work on the canvas alongside him or join several industrial brushes together to create a more ad hoc paintbrush. As such, Frize's main subject has been the painting process itself. Manufacture Inversée is archetypal of the artist's aesthetic, with its long intertwined brush strokes creating a perplexing multicoloured labyrinth, where one cannot make out when the brush first touched the canvas and where the last stroke was applied. The title of the painting, literally 'inverted manufacture', further reinforces the ontological questioning raised by the artist's methods, emphasizing the blurring between industrial and human interaction that Frize has systematically been dealing with since the 1970s.
