The Estate of Michel Frère
Characterized by sedimentations and superimpositions of layers of paint, Michel Frère’s work allies opacity and light. His work transforms reality, sweeping away figurative elements with matter. An impression of monochrome massiveness emanates from his painting and his sculptures, which are petrified and always materialistic.
His painting is neither in line with a trend nor a fashion but transcends its time while being anchored in it, questioning the history of painting. Michel Frère has cut himself off from all fashion effects, drawing exclusively on the source of the intuition by which he intended to seize the world.
His immense paintings always read like abstract paintings whose browns, blacks, dull greens lit up with bright nuggets discreetly bubbling on the surface. Thick but infinitely moving textures, without beginning or end, from which the world seems to rise and die. Giving the spectator the impression of being drawn into a bottomless abyss for a journey to the centre of pictorial matter and matter itself, his works push back the limits of the world and create vertigo.
It was in December 1985, in his gallery in Knokke, that Albert Baronian organised Michel Frère’s first solo exhibition. This was followed by a large number of solo and group exhibitions.
Artworks
Exhibitions
Artists
- John Phillip Abbott
- Jean Bedez
- Alain Biltereyst
- Aline Bouvy
- Marie José Burki
- Seyni Awa Camara
- Robert Devriendt
- Lionel Estève
- The Estate of Michel Frère
- Max Frintrop
- Mekhitar Garabedian
- Gilbert & George
- Stephan Goldrajch
- Olaf Holzapfel
- Toufan Hosseiny
- Chris Johanson
- Jean-François Lacalmontie
- Joseph Marioni
- Xavier Mary
- Dean Monogenis
- Olivier Mosset
- Tony Oursler
- Tessa Perutz
- Eric Poitevin
- Matthew Porter
- Yvan Salomone
- Charles Sandison
- Alain Séchas
- Bruno Serralongue
- Marcin Sobolev
- Charles-Henry Sommelette
- Helmut Stallaerts
- Takis
- Achraf Touloub
- Mitja Tušek
- Charlotte vander Borght
- Leen Voet
- Wang Du
- Thomas Zipp
- Gilberto Zorio
- Yves Zurstrassen