2006 Participating Artists > Frieda Van Dun

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Frieda van Dun (1951/ Weelde) earned a degree of Higher Education of the Fine Arts at the ‘Holy Selpulchre’ Institute in Turnhout and pursued advanced studies in Applied Arts. From 1972 to 1930, she took courses in drawing and studio art in Brasschaat with Anton Van Omme, himself a pupil of Jos Hendrickx, the famous painter and graphic artist. For the last 1 5 years she has been connected with the artists represented by the Antwerp Gallery ‘De Zwarte Panler’, a fountainhead of art at the cutting edge. Since 1978, she has been exhibiting regularly in Belgium and abroad and has been recipient of many awards. She also teaches al the Fine Arts School of Flanders based in Antwerp. (De Kunsthumaniora). In her paintings, collages, bas reliefs, graphics and often in mixed techniques, she has been pursuing a continuous search for the structural aspects and qualities of visual arts, as well as for her personal relationship with the present and the past of the visual arts themselves...with music, nature, architecture, the urban landscape and .. ..the seaport. Colour plays an important role in her work with red, yellow, blue and a beautiful dark green dominant while, in addition to the extremes of black and white, subtler colours have appeared as well. She deconstructs the image in the best cubist traditions, with roots in the early twentieth century. She will divide space into a structure of small, flat elements which are capable of creating, with their colours, an impression of corporality, while concurrently overlapping and penetrating each other. In doing so, she shows a special talent for well-balanced composition. Like the cubists, she will apply a geometrical reduction, without tending to pure abstraction... Ernest van Buynder, MuHKA |