Peter Frie, Tree, 2024. Sculpture in bronze
Courtesy of the artist, Galleri Arnstedt and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
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About The Work
For CHART in Tivoli 2024, Peter Frie presents one of his bronze sculptures “Tree”. Peter Frie is best known for his paintings but has since 2009 worked in bronze sculpture. The inspiration comes from his own works where the trees have emerged into "three-dimensional paintings". His trees and landscapes are not tied to a specific place, they exist at once nowhere, and everywhere.
The trees are "recognizably a painter's sculptures, given they are shaped as much by light and shade as by the hand... they create their own surrounding world and scale. When we look at them, we can see the air vibrating around them." (Timo Valjakka, Under the Red Sky, 2016)
He works at the foundry Bangkok Studio, Prachin Buri, Bangkok, Thailand where the Swedish caster Ulf Ferreus acts as a link to the workers. Peter Frie is usually involved in the entire process, from model work on a 1:1 scale to the finished work leaving the foundry. Some sculptures are upwards of three to four meters high and weigh a few tons, while the smallest is only a few decimeters and weighs a couple of kilos. During 2023 and early 2024, Frie showed a group of Trees at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Peter Frie, Tree, 2024. Sculpture in bronze
Courtesy of the artist, Galleri Arnstedt and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Peter Frie, Tree, 2024. Sculpture in bronze
Courtesy of the artist, Galleri Arnstedt and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Portrait of Peter Frie
Courtesy of Galleri Arnstedt
About The Artist
Peter Frie (b. 1947) lives and works in Asien and Båstad, Sweden. His works have been shown in many solo exhibitions, at venues such as the Picasso Museum in Münster, Germany, Kalmar konstmuseum in Kalmar, Sweden, Galleri Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland, Thielska Gallery Sweden, and Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Works by Peter Frie are held in the collections of institutions like Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Kiasma at the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, and the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA. Frie has also executed a series of public works, which are on display in places like the Skogskapellet cemetery chapel, Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden, and Seglarparken, Gröndal, Sweden.
Latest exhibition with his sculptures; Pilarne Bohuslän Sweden; New Art Centre, England; National Musuem Stockholm Sweden; Mottisfont, National trust, England; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids USA and just now in Lund cathedral, Sweden. In 1998, Peter Frie received the ARS Fennica Award, and he is also a recipient of The Memory of Prince Eugene Award, which is granted by the Sundbyholm Art Foundation.
Peter Frie is represented by Galleri Arnstedt
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