Bernard Frize
Bernard Frize is a French artist whose abstraction explores the act of painting. Colour, rules and chance generate images without a literal subject.
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Bernard Frize: colour as a process
Bernard Frize approaches abstraction through an action rather than a recognisable object: paint moves, bands cross and an image emerges. Predetermined procedures coexist with unpredictable results. The tension between a system and what escapes it is more useful to his work than an explanation of what a painting is supposed to depict.
In Vernal, the subject represented at ArtComburo, coloured lines overlap in translucent layers and repeated rhythms. From a distance they form a continuous field; closer viewing reveals individual transitions and crossings. Following the route of a line, its changing tone and the gaps between bands offers a way into the image without needing a story.
The selection presents a poster after Vernal, not the original canvas. The date of the underlying artwork can differ from the publication date of its printed edition. Read the product page for the dimensions, process, framing and status of the particular offer. In a room, this kind of abstraction can be chosen through its colour relationships rather than an association with a character or a narrative.
