THE PARADOX OF PAINTING
Although Bernard Frize has been painting for over four decades, the Berlin-based artist feels that he keeps repeating the same motions and producing the same canvases day after day, trapped in an endless cycle, as if his oeuvre hasn’t evolved since his first exhibition in 1977.
“Sometimes I look at my work and I think I’m always doing the same thing and it doesn’t make me happy,” he says, “I’ve the feeling it’s always the same preoccupation even if the images are very different.” However, it’s precisely this feeling of failure, that he hasn’t accomplished what he had set out to achieve, which keeps him going. “Most of the time I’m failing,” he admits. “This is why it’s so interesting and why I’m interested.”
Bernard assures that as long as he finds pleasure in painting, he’ll continue to do what he has been
