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 Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878. French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems. Frize distances himself from his "products"--and yet his signature is indelible: cool, yes, but depersonalized, never. Nothing could be more idiosyncratic id·i·o·syn·cra·sy n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies 1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group. 2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity. 3. than such wild inventiveness Inventiveness Archimedes (287–212 B. C.) invented military engine which saved Syracuse. [Gk. Hist.: Hall, 31] Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922) inventor of telephone (1876). [Am. Hist. so elegantly controlled. Opening only three days after a more tightly focused exhibition at the Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery (grid reference SP060866) is a modern art gallery, housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic, former Birmingham board school Oozells Street School (John Henry Chamberlain 1877), in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. , 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. |
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