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PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 100 pgs / 25 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 141   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783865606952 FLAT40
List Price: $39.95 CAD $53.95

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Pia Fries: Merian’s Surinam

Text by Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Camille Morineau.

For the 14 diptychs that comprise the Merian's Surinam series, Swiss painter Pia Fries (born 1955) uses reproductions by the painter and botanical illustrator Maria Sybilla Merian (1647–1717). Merian's images of plants, flowers, animals and insects are elaborated upon with oil paint, from thin to thick impasto, and with varying degrees of obscuration, to establish an open and playful dialogue between the two women.
Pia Fries: Merian’s Surinam

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

THOMAS EVANS | DATE 2/23/2010

Pia Fries: Merian’s Surinam
From Walther König

Pia Fries: Merian’s Surinam

Pia Fries (born 1955) is a Swiss-born painter, now living in Düsseldorf, Germany. A former student of Gerhard Richter, she shares her mentor's fondness for visceral paint effects, blending and smearing colors in horizontal gestures, but the similarity ends there: if Richter's paint manoeuvres conjure present-day preoccupations with blur and speed, Fries seems to use paint as a way to move across pictorial space, of finding out where to go--not so much "taking a line for a walk" (in Klee's phrase) as taking a splodge for a walk. continue to blog


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