Bernard Frize: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. (Paris).

Working less as a maker of paintings than as a maker of methods of painting, Bernard Frize distances himself from his "products"--and yet his signature is indelible: cool, yes, but depersonalized, never. Nothing could be more idiosyncratic than such wild inventiveness so elegantly controlled. Opening only three days after a more tightly focused exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, of works made through collaborative processes, this show, curated by the Musee d'Art Moderne's Beatrice Parent, comprises about 125 canvases, most from the past five years but with a handful going back as far as 1988, when Frize last showed at the museum. June 6-Sept. 28.