Florian Froehlich
Florian Froehlich (born December 17, 1959 in Pfäffikon ) is a contemporary Swiss artist who expresses himself in painting , sculpture , glass windows and installations.
Live and act
At the beginning of his artistic career, Florian Froehlich was influenced by the painters of the École de Paris , including Maurice Estève , Charles Lapicque and Nicolas de Staël , whose works he got to know through his uncle, the Zurich art dealer Peter Nathan. In 1996 Froehlich graduated from the universities of Zurich and Lausanne with a degree in medicine. His increasing artistic activity developed parallel to his professional life.
He has lived and worked in Porrentruy in the Swiss Jura since 1996 . His long friendship with the Swiss artist Jacques Minala brought him to glass art. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Swiss Glass Art Association Verarte.ch, which led to several group exhibitions in the National Glass Art Museum Vitromusée in Romont, for example in 2009.
From 2003 to 2009 Florian Froehlich worked on a large church window project for the Catholic Church in Saignelégier (Swiss Jura), the steles of Saignelégier , which were built from 2008 with the support of the Swiss Confederation in a year of construction, in close cooperation with the stained glass master Roland Béguin and the art locksmith JP Scheuner and using experimental techniques.
The concept of the glass steles made of Dallglas is characterized by a new type of technology: They receive the light of this church by covering only a small part of the window surface in three dimensions. In general, no artificial light is used in glass windows. On the other hand, Froehlich also integrates artificial light: the Golgotha group, three large steles in the middle of the church, are backlit at night with over 2000 watts. Each of the 21, four meter high steles is accompanied by a biblical quote commented on by the priest Bernard Miserez. Saignelégier's steles are a novel contribution to contemporary sacred glass art.
Occasionally, Froehlich alludes to current issues in his art, such as the Jura stage of the 2012 Tour de France . For the latter he installed numerous sculptures walking on wooden slats and an old dusty bicycle entitled Finishing line . The installation was on display for 24 hours on July 8, 2012. Froehlich's work was shown on the 2012 Berliner Liste.
Froehlich has been working regularly with the Achtzig gallery for contemporary art in Berlin since 2010 . In December 2013, gallery owner Diana Achtzig curated a solo exhibition by Froehlich with the theme “World Theater-Theater World”, which was opened in the presence of a representative from the Swiss embassy in Berlin. A book with the same title was published by Editions le Renard par la Queue in Lausanne, under the direction of the writer Ferenc Ràkóczy with texts by the Swiss journalist José Ribeaud and a contemporary art design by Chloé Donzé. Florian Froehlich is currently concentrating on the subject of the human being and the interplay between the individual and the masses. He creates a kind of microcosm in the form of micro-sculptures, on painting sculptures and sculpture paintings.
At the end of 2013, Froehlich came up with the completely new idea of integrating microsculptures in clocks. The idea was officially presented to a parquet of Swiss watch manufacturers of international format as part of an exhibition, with the support of Pascal Bourquard and BIWI.
Exhibitions
Individual exhibitions
- 2013: World Theater-Theater World , Achtzig - Gallery for Contemporary Art , Berlin (December 2013)
- 2012: Tour de France, Jura stage on July 8, 2012: “Finishing Line” ; Installation with multiple sculptures and an old bicycle. Exhibition for 24 hours.
- 2007: Galerie FARB , Delémont, Switzerland
- 2005: Galerie du Solstice , Yverdon / Treycovagnes, Switzerland
- 2004: Galerie du Solstice , Yverdon / Treycovagnes, Switzerland
- 2003: Catherine Clerc Gallery , Lausanne
- 2002: Galerie Paul Bovée , Delémont, Switzerland
- 1998: Courant d'Art Gallery , Chevenez, Switzerland; Paul Bovée Gallery , Delémont,
- 1997: Galerie Pingeot-Gerbi , Paris; Catherine Clerc Gallery , Lausanne
- 1994: Catherine Clerc Gallery , Lausanne
- 1993: Galerie de l'Evole99 , Neuchâtel
- 1992: Fondation du Grand-Cachot-de-Vent , Vallée de La Brévine, Switzerland
- 1991: Galerie Jasmin , Zurich, Switzerland; Black Gallery , Lausanne
- 1989: Galerie Jasmin , Zurich
Group exhibitions
- 2013: MicroArt: Exhibition of works with the idea of using microsculptures in the watch industry. Pleujouse , October 29, 2013
- 2013: Galerie FARB , Delémont
- 2011–2013: Achtzig Gallery for Contemporary Art , Berlin
- 2010: Achtzig - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin, exhibition City Landscapes
- 2009: Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Art , Romont (Vitromusée), Romont. Verarte.ch exhibition; Gallery Meisterschüler , Berlin
- 2007: Galerie Art Service , Château d'Eguilly, Eguilly, France; Bleu de Chine Gallery , Fleurier, Switzerland
- 2006: Permanent exhibition: Alain Aubry Gallery , Paris
- 2005: Verarte.ch: Exhibition of stained glass , Elisabethenkirche, Basel
- 2004: Exposition au Musée suisse du vitrail et des arts du verre , Verarte.ch, Romont
- 2002: Invitation to the Swiss National Exhibition Expo 02: Art Museum, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1998: Center d'Art en Face , Porrentruy , Switzerland
- 1994: 120 artistes jurassiens , Delémont
- 1992: Galerie 67 , Bern
literature
- Florian Froehlich: World Theater - Theater World , Éditions Le renard par la queue, Lausanne, ISBN 978-2-940533-00-8
- Stained Glass for the 21st Century: Painting with Glass and Light . ISBN 978-3-00-040422-1
- Biographical lexicon of Swiss art. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85823-673-X .
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- ↑ a b c phArt October / November 2007, article Florian Froehlich - Un ordre subtil
- ↑ a b phArt 2002, article La connivence créatrice de Jacques Minala et Florian Froehlich. ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Exhibition in Delémont, 2002.
- ↑ florian Froehlich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Verarte.ch website
- ↑ Laurence Chauvy: Actualité de l'art du verre. ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Quoted from Le Temps on August 22, 2009.
- ↑ a b c d e Blaise Calame: Vitraux à l'air libre. ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Quoted from Illustré, February 25, 2009.
- ↑ Florian Froehlich ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Roland Béguin's website
- ↑ Florian Froehlich - Inauguration of the steles of Saignelégier , canal Alpha TV broadcast, February 19, 2009, at vimeo.com .
- ↑ Glaswelt , October 2008, article Dallglas is on the rise again. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Video of the Tour de France installation on Youtube
- ^ Website of the eighty - gallery for contemporary art , with Florian Froehlich.
- ↑ Florian Froehlich ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the gallery website
- ↑ Book Florian Froehlich: World Theater - Theater World . Editions Le renard par la queue, CH-1005 Lausanne. No ISBN 978-2-940533-00-8 .
- ↑ a b Article Art et horlogerie ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the microsculptures in clocks, Quotidien Jurassien , 2013
- ↑ Lausanne article : Florian Froehlich with Catherine Clerc ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , phArt September 2003.
- ↑ Article Du paysage à l'abstraction ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , to the 1998 exhibition at the Courant d'Art-Galerie, Quotidien Jurassien 1998.
- ↑ Article Florian Froehlich - Entre Abstraction et figuration ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , for the 1998 exhibition at the Bovée Gallery in Delémont, Quotidien Jurassien , 1998.
Web links
- Website from Florian Froehlich
- Happy, Florian at SIKART
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happy, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pfäffikon ZH |