Private viewing Saturday 13th September, 18h-20h (members and invited guests only)
Exposition Sunday 14th September - 28th September, 15h-18h
Closed on Mondays
In September 2014 there will be an exhibition of two artists - Isolde Fritz, and Kunibert Fritz.
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1934 Born in Znojmo, Czech Republic.
1950 Studied at Deutsche Meisterschule für Mode, Munich, Germany.
1952 – 58 Studied at School of Fine Arts of Stuttgart.
1956 – 68 Worked as a graphic designer in Frankfort.
1975 – 80 Lived in Holland. Started creating artworks in textiles.
1980 – 93 Back to Germany, Friedberg. Made a series of tapestries “Images with jeans”; Exhibitions and publications about “Textile Art”; Active in “art and social education”; Helped to set up a medical centre to apply global and therapeutic methods, “ZEGAM”; Developed creative processes “Play and Discover”;
From 1988, Isolde led such projects at the University of Applied Sciences in Fuld.
1994 Secondary home in Lamalou-le-Vieux, France. Returned to creative works with “paintings”.
2006… Has worked and lived in Lamalou-le-Vieux, and Friedberg A series of pictures on “THE SEA”.
Exhibitions (a selection)
1983 Deutsche Biennale Textilkunst, Textilmuseum Krefeld- Linn “textilkunst 83”, Städtische Galerie Paderborn. Triennale „zeitgenössisches Deutsches Kunsthandwerk”. Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt.D und Kestnermuseum, Hannover. Kunstverein, Friedberg. PATCH-ART “kulturinitiative bad nauheim”. Künstlerwettbewerb „Bad”, Bad Nauheim.
1987 Galerie Hof in Hof. Deutsche Biennale Textilkunst, Textilmuseum Krefeld-Linn.
Since 2000, more exhibitions in Germany and France.
Website: www.isoldefritz.de
1937 Born in Schwerin/Germany
1958/62 School of Fine Arts in Cassel with Fritz Winter
1966/99 Art teacher/Germany.
Lives and works in Friedberg/Germany and Lamalou-le-Vieux, France
Site : www.kunibertfritz.de
Exhibitions (a selection)
1991 Repères, Paris
2009 Fraisse de Corbière
2010 Gare-Expo, Lamalou- les-Bains
2011 Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg/Germany
2014 Broft Galerie, Leerdam/Holland
Public Collections
Musée de Cambrai/France
Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt/Germany
Musée Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz/Poland
Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon/France
Lieu D’Art Contemporain, Sigean/France
Satoru Sato Art Museum, Tome/Japan
Haus konstruktiv, Zürich/Switzerland
"I use the Fibonacci sequence in my paintings.
Fibonacci was one of the most important mathematicians in the Middle Ages. He pointed out a series of figures that do not need to be memorised. The sequence starts at zero + 1; and you add the last two figures to get the subsequent numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,… There are other interesting characteristics. When you divide the bigger number by the smaller one, you get the “golden number”: 1,618033988. So, 13/8 = 1.625 ; 21/13 = 1.615… ; 34/21 = 1.61904…etc. The greater the numbers of the division, the closer you get to the “golden number”.
The “golden number” has been a famous number since the Antiquity among architects, mathematicians and artists as it is said to reflect harmonious shapes and proportions.
For my current paintings, I rely only on figures from 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 which add up to 20. In total freedom. Since I can use each unit on vertical or horizontal lines, or in spirals. On the computer.
I use basic colours : black, white, grey and also yellow, red and blue. For each picture, I select the colours according to visual links – for instance, the complementary contrast between light and dark, hot and cold or the space created by the colours themselves.
I aim to balance the contrasts so that no single field of colours dominates. The viewer can then reflect over these links by gazing at them."
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