The Centre Pompidou Celebrates Bernard Frize's Figurative Abstraction

Since the beginning of 2010, the Centre Pompidou in Paris' Beaubourg neighborhood has hosted works by French artists of national caliber. This year, the arts and culture center dedicates a retrospective to Bernard Frize, a well-known painter who constantly renews the language of figurative abstraction according to the now-famous theory of everything. With a unique staging, the sixty works surround six main themes. The titles evoke the artist's humor and self-irony, of a Eulipian and deliberately paradoxical inspiration: with unreasonableness, without effort, with system, without system, with skill, without pause. Walking through the exhibit, visitors will notice the paintings follow a free thematic itinerary, without direction or hierarchy. This obscures the serial approach, a distinctive trait of the artist's work. This confused, original, and colorful course urgently beckons for viewers to discover it this summer.