Maria Friberg
Maria Friberg, "Painting Series #6", 2011
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 9/20 AP. Edition 300 + 20 AP. C-print mounted on aluminum and framed 65.5 x 45.5 cm including frame.
Not examined out of frame. Appears to be in good condition.
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The artist descibes "The Painting Series" as follows:
With my background in a painterly tradition, I have always considered my photographs and videos as still or moving paintings. In this new series, I have approached painting in a more literal and physical way, in regards to the production as well as the end result. The images in this series could be described as a documentation of a performance, where the individuals participate in a painterly process.
Just like the action painting of artists such as Jackson Pollock or the monochrome paintings by Yves Klein, the images are the direct results of the painterly gesture. I set up a situation where the paint flows and the individuals perform an improvised choreography, surrounded by paint. The images are staged, but they have not been digitally altered. The process is partially random, the final result isn’t revealed until after the images have been developed.
With their chromatic, abstract eruptions, the images also refer to astronomical constellations or organic structures, they are simultaneously micro- and macrocosmos."
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Maria Friberg was a Swedish artist who primarily worked with photography and videography. Her primary theme was masculinity, whereby she investigated the traditional male adopted roles and its properties which has through history been defined as "masculine". Since her breakthrough in the 1990s alongside other female photographers who were educated at Gothenburgs photography school, Friberg has offered his growing audience enigmatic, powerful, and imaginative staged images of men. They float tranquilly in pool water, are squeezed into cars, sometimes sleeping among white sheets, or only their lower halves are visible as they sit in suits at a table. She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references. Friberg likes to work in series, varying a motif across multiple works. Some of her most well-known series are "Still Lives" and "Almost There."
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