Gijs Frieling
My work seeks to present the development of painting as a united whole within which the differences between decorative painting, folk art, religious art, high art and the avant-garde are merely contextual ones. Painting is visual knowledge, and at the same time it is an assembly made up of acts.
Gijs Frieling
In his work, Gijs Frieling (1966, the Netherlands) forges together decorative painting, folk art, religious painting, art history themes and the avant-garde. He works in egg tempera on canvas, panels, paper, walls or ceilings. Frieling has made an extensive study of all manner of traditional painting techniques derived from folk art. Frieling establishes beforehand what acts he will have to undertake to obtain his end result, making the act of painting almost akin to church ritual.
