Pedro Friedeberg

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present an exhibit of Pedro Friedeberg's work.  We are thrilled to showcase his hand-chair, firsts created over 50 years ago,  along with sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and objects.

Although Friedeberg’s artworks are sometimes described as Surrealist or Fantastic Realist, they are not easily definable in terms of conventional categories. His works include paintings, sculpture, printmaking, installations, and constructed montages, where the surrealist space is populated with borrowed and personal symbols. His hand-chair has become one of the icons of 20th century design.

Friedeberg studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he was profoundly influenced by the teaching of Mathías Goeritz. He used architectural drawing as the medium through which he created unusual compositions in series such as Pure and Impure Architecture; Animals, People, Idiots, Philosophers; Sublime Perspectives; and Unclassifiable Lucubrations. Friedeberg also designs furniture and objects, admitting that his artistic activity was rooted in boredom. The sense of irony and excess imparted to his pictures, through the hallucinatory repetition of elements, aims for a formal disorder.