Had our goodbye party yesterday, attended mostly by students of Jürgen Partenheimer's old class. So of course we talked about painting and printmaking, and for a good while about Swiss painter Pia Fries.
Pia Fries: Krapprhizom Luisenkupfer
I found these two great videos about her works at the intersection of painting and printmaking. The first one is from 2010, the second one from 2008.
In "Krapprhizom Luisenkupfer" we get to see how Pia Fries was invited by the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, and how the works she produced for this show were based on a print by Dutch painter and engraver Hendrik Goltzius.
Segments of his print were enlarged and screen printed on a series of her canvasses, a foundation to which she then reacted to with her usual intense layers of colour. Rolf-Gunter Dienst once said that he loves butter cream cake and thus feels the same about her paintings, a sentiment i absolutely understand.
The second video was recored three years earlier, about Fries' cooperation with Crown Point Press. Her works, a mixture of color soap ground, spit bite aquatints, photogravure, soft ground etching and roulette were done in collaboration with Crown Point master printer Emily York.
Pia Fries getting interviewed at Crown Point Press:
Pia Fries at Crown Point Press
http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/fries
Hendrik Goltzius (Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Goltzius
Represented by so many galleries:
http://crggallery.com/artists/pia-fries/
Cabinet of Prints at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe:
http://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/caw2_index.php?page_id=738&lang=de
(in the grey box at the right side of the page, click on "Das besondere Blatt" to see the bi-monthly digital exhibition highlighting a hidden gem of the more than 90.000 prints in the colletion. A feature I think way more collections should have)