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Pedro Friedeberg: Praise of Folly

Past exhibition
April 17 - June 18, 2016 San Antonio
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Pedro Friedeberg Lección de Elegancia y Sofisticación ((Elegance and Sophistication Carpet), 2015 Handwoven silk and New Zealand wool 78.8 x 78.8 " 200 x 200 cm
Pedro Friedeberg
Lección de Elegancia y Sofisticación ((Elegance and Sophistication Carpet), 2015
Handwoven silk and New Zealand wool
78.8 x 78.8 "
200 x 200 cm

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Pedro Friedeberg: Praise of Folly. The exhibition will feature an eclectic mix of Pedro Friedeberg’s art across a fairly broad range of media including: hand woven carpets, paintings, his iconic hand-chairs, fantastical sculptures and prints. A catalogue will be available with an essay by art curator Dan Cameron. According to Cameron, "His self-identification as a Surrealist as late as 1960 appears to have had as much to do with the circles that he moved in as with a strongly held belief that the collision of art, mass culture, and technology in the 1960s would expand the thresholds of human creativity. It was probably somewhat misleading for him to refer to himself as a Surrealist. In truth, his work represents several separate strands of 20th century aesthetics tied together in a bow, from Giorgio de Chirico’s la pittura metafisica and the classic surrealism of André Breton, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, to the geometry-based abstraction favored by such modernist giants as Wasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Georges Vantongerloo. However, any precise stylistic categorization of Friedeberg’s work is stymied by the fact that nobody makes art in quite the same way than he does."

 

Born in 1938 in Florence, Italy to German-Jewish parents, Friedeberg grew up in Mexico City from age three, and as a child was particularly drawn to the illusionistic representation of architectural space, both in Italian Renaissance architecture and 18th century painting, as well M.C. Escher and Josef Albers. While studying architecture at university, he met the distinguished artist Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), who became a lifelong friend, collaborator, and immediate champion of Friedeberg’s distinctive work. Within a couple of years, Friedeberg had met Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington and was having his first one-man exhibition at Galería Diana at the age of 22.

 

Pedro Friedeberg is a internationally acclaimed artist. His work is found in more than 50 international museum collections including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, and Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, CA.

 

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Works
  • Pedro Friedeberg Jinete en Busca de Dios, 2015 Ink and acrylic on paper 13.5 x 11 in 34.3 x 27.9 cm
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Jinete en Busca de Dios, 2015
    Ink and acrylic on paper
    13.5 x 11 in
    34.3 x 27.9 cm
  • Pedro Friedeberg Lección de Elegancia y Sofisticación ((Elegance and Sophistication Carpet), 2015 Handwoven silk and New Zealand wool 78.8 x 78.8 " 200 x 200 cm
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Lección de Elegancia y Sofisticación ((Elegance and Sophistication Carpet), 2015
    Handwoven silk and New Zealand wool
    78.8 x 78.8 "
    200 x 200 cm
  • Pedro Friedeberg Gold Chair, 2017 Hand carved solid Mahogany wood with gold leaf 37.8 x 18 x 18.5" 95.9 x 45.7 x 47 cm
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Gold Chair, 2017
    Hand carved solid Mahogany wood with gold leaf
    37.8 x 18 x 18.5"
    95.9 x 45.7 x 47 cm
  • Pedro Friedeberg Red Table Clock, 1998 Wood, acrylic and gold leaf 22 x 16 x 8" 55.9 x 40.6 x 20.3 cm
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Red Table Clock, 1998
    Wood, acrylic and gold leaf
    22 x 16 x 8"
    55.9 x 40.6 x 20.3 cm
  • Pedro Friedeberg Sillas III, Lucio Santiago, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2014 Serigraph 25.3 x 29.8 64.3 x 75.7 cm 69 / 80
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Sillas III, Lucio Santiago, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2014
    Serigraph
    25.3 x 29.8
    64.3 x 75.7 cm
    69 / 80
  • Pedro Friedeberg Cuadrúpédo Canocaedro, 2015 Wood and gold leaf 8.5 x 6.5 x 4" 21.6 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Cuadrúpédo Canocaedro, 2015
    Wood and gold leaf
    8.5 x 6.5 x 4"
    21.6 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm
Installation Views
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Publications
  • Pedro Friedeberg: Praise of Folly I Ruiz-Healy Art

    Pedro Friedeberg: Praise of Folly I Ruiz-Healy Art

    Essay by Dan Cameron 2016
    Hardcover 100 pages
    Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
    ISBN: 9781389270185
    Dimensions: 8×10 in
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Related artist

  • Pedro Friedeberg, Bodas triangulares orgánicas interacciones morganáticas, 2021, Signed, titled and dated, Ink and acrylic on museum board, 41.4 x 61.1 in, 105 x 155 cm

    Pedro Friedeberg

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