Research Catalog

Title

Pia Fries : "tausend : einerlei" / edited by Jochen Kienbaum und Laura Kienbaum ; with poems by John Yau.

Author

Fries, Pia, 1955-

Publication

• Cologne : Snoeck, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kienbaum, Jochen, 1946-
• Kienbaum, Laura
• Yau, John, 1950-

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations; 34 cm.

Summary

Pia Fries (*1955) applies paint directly to her canvases, either as a compact mass or liquid trace and in the process plays with textures, factures, and repetitive forms. She makes masterful use of the possibilities of technical reproduction, as other contemporary painters have done as well. Her use of photomechanical processes in her painterly work, however, is not aimed at aspects of transparency or recognition of what is depicted, but rather focuses on the developing autonomy of the various parts. Her graphic art is the polar opposite to her painting; it alternates in a fascinating way between figuration and abstraction, between history and the present. For the present series of works, she has taken apart three copies of the illustrated book "Chinesische Bambuspapierherstellung. Ein Bilderbuch aus dem 18. Jahrhundert," a picture book on Chinese bamboo paper production from the eighteenth century, removed the text contributions and released the individual color plates into their individual autonomy. I then appropriated these independent picture panels, reshaped them using paints and prints, and finally they transformed into something new. Pia Fries, a master student of Gerhard Richter, studied in Düsseldorf from 1980 to 1986 and has gained widespread international recognition after participating in Harald Szeemann's Venice Biennale in 1999.

Series Statement

Kienbaum artists' books ; 2022 edition

Uniform Title

Kienbaum artists' books ; 2022 ed.

Alternative Title

Tausend : einerlei

Subject

• Fries, Pia, 1955-
• Painting, Modern > 21st century

Language (note)

• Texts in English and German.

Call Number

JQG 22-560

ISBN

• 9783864423710
• 3864423716

LCCN

9783864423710

OCLC

1302171868

Author

Fries, Pia, 1955- artist.

Title

Pia Fries : "tausend : einerlei" / edited by Jochen Kienbaum und Laura Kienbaum ; with poems by John Yau.

Publisher

Cologne : Snoeck, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Kienbaum artists' books ; 2022 edition

Kienbaum artists' books ; 2022 ed.

Language

Texts in English and German.

Added Author

Kienbaum, Jochen, 1946- editor.

Kienbaum, Laura, editor.

Yau, John, 1950- writer of supplementary textual content.

Other Standard Identifier

9783864423710

Research Call Number

JQG 22-560