Description
The paintings and etchings of Robert Fry (b. 1980, London) confront viewers with an engaging exploration of the human form that asks profound questions about people's physical presence in the universe and the psychological, emotional and spiritual engagement we have with the world through our bodies. With a deep sense of civilisations past, from the prehistoric to the ancient Egyptian, Medieval and Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, Fry navigates a complex visual language that bridges the figurative and the abstract in a way that is evocative of body and mind, matter and spirit, life and death. Fry's search for universal truths leads into dark territory, into our subconscious minds and neuroses, our deepest fears, anxieties and insecurities. Both sacred and profane, Fry's work masterfully employs colour, mark, line, shape and form to bring us face to face with our inner and outer selves, with our humanity and, ultimately, with our own mortality.
This beautifully produced publication features around sixty selected works by the artist over the course of more than fifteen years, from very early works to 2013. Following an introduction to the artist's work by Mamuka Bliadze is an essay by the artist's father, distinguished Consultant Psychiatrist Anthony Fry, which investigates the themes of masculinity and maleness in his son's paintings, and in particular a series of works that refers to the Fry family, including a portrait of both Anthony and Robert Fry that seeks to unravel the complexities of the father-son relationship. A wider consideration of Fry's practice is pursued in an essay by critic and curator Jane Neal that addresses topics ranging from Saussurean signification to automatic writing, pagan fertility symbols to archetypal human forms, twentieth-century British painting to body builders.
London-based Fry has had solo exhibitions in London, Berlin and Los Angeles, and featured in numerous group exhibitions including 'Newspeak - British Art Now' at The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and 'The Curator's Egg' at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. This, the first monograph on the work of Robert Fry, is co-published by Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, and Anomie Publishing, UK.
About the Author
Jane Neal is an independent curator, writer and art consultant based in the UK with a speciality in contemporary painting practice. Recent shows include Introducing 21st Century Women (Unit Gallery, London 2018), Disruptive Imagination (Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary, 2017) and A Question of Perspective (Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam 2016). Mamuka Bliadze, born in 1961 in Georgia, studied art history at the State University of Tbilisi, Georgia, and art and business at Sotheby's, London, England. Since 2000 he has curated group and solo exhibitions of contemporary art in England, Germany, France, Italy and Georgia, and writes for various art publications. He is a co-founder and Managing Director of Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin.
Book Information
ISBN 9780957693647
Author Jane Neal
Format Hardback
Page Count 88
Imprint Anomie Publishing
Publisher Anomie Publishing
This beautifully produced publication features around sixty selected works by the artist over the course of more than fifteen years, from very early works to 2013. Following an introduction to the artist's work by Mamuka Bliadze is an essay by the artist's father, distinguished Consultant Psychiatrist Anthony Fry, which investigates the themes of masculinity and maleness in his son's paintings, and in particular a series of works that refers to the Fry family, including a portrait of both Anthony and Robert Fry that seeks to unravel the complexities of the father-son relationship. A wider consideration of Fry's practice is pursued in an essay by critic and curator Jane Neal that addresses topics ranging from Saussurean signification to automatic writing, pagan fertility symbols to archetypal human forms, twentieth-century British painting to body builders.
London-based Fry has had solo exhibitions in London, Berlin and Los Angeles, and featured in numerous group exhibitions including 'Newspeak - British Art Now' at The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and 'The Curator's Egg' at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. This, the first monograph on the work of Robert Fry, is co-published by Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, and Anomie Publishing, UK.
About the Author
Jane Neal is an independent curator, writer and art consultant based in the UK with a speciality in contemporary painting practice. Recent shows include Introducing 21st Century Women (Unit Gallery, London 2018), Disruptive Imagination (Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary, 2017) and A Question of Perspective (Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam 2016). Mamuka Bliadze, born in 1961 in Georgia, studied art history at the State University of Tbilisi, Georgia, and art and business at Sotheby's, London, England. Since 2000 he has curated group and solo exhibitions of contemporary art in England, Germany, France, Italy and Georgia, and writes for various art publications. He is a co-founder and Managing Director of Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin.
Book Information
ISBN 9780957693647
Author Jane Neal
Format Hardback
Page Count 88
Imprint Anomie Publishing
Publisher Anomie Publishing
