PETER FRIE – THE VIEW BELONGS TO EVERYONE
2024-02-26Peter Frie presents his latest small-scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures in his new exhibition. Frie’s timeless landscapes have an experiential resonance to which everyone can relate. His canvases present nameless scenes that remind us of places we know or foreign lands we have visited, or they might equally represent landscapes within ourselves. They also possess a metaphorical universality that transcends the
physical location.
Frie paints only from memory, never by replicating real landscapes. Nevertheless, his works are rooted in the landscape tradition, particularly the Symbolist aesthetic of using landscapes to express abstract concepts such as mental states and memories, and the romantic tradition of imbuing scenery with a powerful emotive presence. The small size and the white frame enclosing the picture plane highlights the limits of
experience inviting us to picture the landscape that extends beyond the picture frame. The dark-hued sculptures are like three-dimensional negatives of the paintings, or gateways that lead us deeper inside their mystical world.
Opposite – The View Belongs to Everyone, 2023
Exhibition runs through to March 17th, 2024
Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland
