Bernard Frize

To make a painting focuses on the work of internationally renowned painter Bernard Frize, alongside Aotearoa’s distinguished painter Judy Millar. Born in France and based in Berlin, Frize has a...

Bringing together internationally renowned artists Anish Kapoor (India/UK), Bosco Sodi (Mexico), Dale Frank (Australia) and Bernard Frize (France), Flow is an exploration of colour, surface and materiality.

The narrative of abstraction in western painting is one of linear progression. We are taught that abstraction unfolded neatly: from Braque’s pixelated landscapes via Kandinsky’s colour explosions to Mondrian’s grids, we arrived at abstraction proper. But if total abstraction was achieved with Malevich’s Black Square in 1915, how then does painting continue along this linear trajectory more than 100 years later? For three Berlin-based contemporary artists Katharina Grosse, Bernard Frize, and Imi Knoebel, the answer lies in subverting progress itself. Detours brings together works by these artists to present an argument for divergent timelines.