{"id":7992,"date":"2013-10-25T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:28:31","slug":"bernard-frize-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/bernard-frize-sidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Frize: Sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cOn the Side Where There is No Handrail\u201d<\/a>: Bernard Frize solo exhibition<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong<\/a> <\/strong>(17\/F, 50 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong) Aug 29\u2013Sep 28, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his recent exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong, Bernard Frize uses mostly acrylic and resin to give eight new paintings a plasticized feel. The choice of medium is most effective when the artist allows the raw materiality of his brushwork to forge the painting\u2019s basic design. This is especially true for the two best works on display here \u2014 \u201cNelio\u201d and \u201cGliale\u201d \u2014 these are the two paintings in which Frize seems to let himself go, while the others appear as though they are striving to be pleasant \u2014 perhaps \u201cNelio\u201d and \u201cGliale\u201d still strive in the same direction, though they manage to pull it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGliale\u201d consists of nine colored boxes arranged in stacks of three. Thick brushstrokes move from one colored square to the next without any awkwardness or breaking. \u201cNelio\u201d has a similar motif, only against a background of gray-white swaths, and its nine squares are much smaller \u2013 the contained elements of the painting, rather than the containers, as in \u201cGliale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernard Frize, \u201cOn the Side where there is no Handrail\u201d, exhibition view
\u4f2f\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5f17\u83b1\u5179, \u300a\u5728\u6ca1\u6709\u680f\u6746\u7684\u4e00\u8fb9\u300b, \u5c55\u89c8\u73b0\u573a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bernard Frize, \u201cGliale\u201d, acrylic and resin on canvas, 160 x 140 cm \/ 63 x 55 1\/4 inches , 2013
\u4f2f\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5f17\u83b1\u5179, \u300aGliale\u300b \u5e03\u9762\u4e19\u70ef\u6811\u8102, 160 x 140 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bernard Frize, \u201cNelio\u201d, acrylic and resin on canvas, 160 x 140 cm \/ 63 x 55 1\/4 inches, 2013
\u4f2f\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5f17\u83b1\u5179, \u300aNelio\u300b, \u5e03\u9762\u4e19\u70ef\u6811\u8102, 160 x 140 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Color is, of course, the most noticeable feature of this kind of work. The key to a successful abstract painting, however, is rhythm. It is in these two paintings that Frize proves himself as a rhythmicist, unconstrained by the dictates of pattern; rather, impulse is allowed free rein\u2014as it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the problem for Frize is that so often this is restrained. The pseudo-psychedelic designs (folded diamond-shaped swirls) in paintings like \u201cSemploi\u201d and \u201cSeplia\u201d are hardly unique, and whenever clich\u00e9 begins to emerge where such bright and lively palette is employed, the risk becomes decorativeness\u2014wallpaper. (In fact, the carpeting in the hotel room in which I\u2019m writing this isn\u2019t too far off from Frize\u2019s latest efforts. And the colors in \u201cSemploi,\u201d reminiscent of toothpaste, don\u2019t help quell the drab domestic comparisons, either.) At his most stagnant, there is a rigidity of design in Frize that is bothersome. It often seems as though he is striving to imbue a light \u201cconceptual\u201d touch to what essentially winds up looking like collectors\u2019 art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it is difficult to try to do something with \u201cpure painting\u201d in 2013, as Frize is ambitiously attempting. The desire to go outside of language has become a doctrine in itself, and nothing that impressive or new has arguably been accomplished through pure color and form since the Color Fieldists had their day. Honestly, Frize is at his most effective in the sole oil painting included in the show, \u201cPolji.\u201d The effect is not all that different from the sticky-bright effect of the resinated acrylics\u2014the tension between the colored swirls, achieved through an accentuating fading white line between each\u2014has the effect of creating a peculiar harmony among the colors. It must be said, though, that these are based on mostly complementary schemes. Perhaps, then, there is an experiment at stake here to see how far the artist can extend his flirtation with academic abstraction while still retaining something of his own. But that\u2019s a stretch, as, in the end, there is too little tension in these canvases to excavate any great internal dialectic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernard Frize, \u201cSemploi\u201d, acrylic and resin on canvas, 170.5 x 170.5 cm \/ 67 1\/4 x 67 1\/4 inches , 2013
\u4f2f\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5f17\u83b1\u5179, \u300aSemploi\u300b, \u5e03\u9762\u4e19\u70ef\u6811\u8102, 170.5 x 170.5 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bernard Frize, \u201cSeplia\u201d, acrylic and resin on canvas, 170.5 x 170.5 cm \/ 67 1\/4 x 67 1\/4 inches , 2013
\u4f2f\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5f17\u83b1\u5179, \u300aSeplia\u300b, \u5e03\u9762\u4e19\u70ef\u6811\u8102, 170.5 x 170.5 cm, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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