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Installation de florian froehlich pour la boucle jurassienne du tour de france 2012
Florian Froehlich, born December 17, 1959, in Pfaeffikon in Switzerland, is a contemporary artist who creates paintings, sculptures, stained-glass, and installations.
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- Installation de florian froehlich pour la boucle jurassienne du tour de france 2012
- The artist
- Individual exhibitions
- Group exhibitions
- Publications
- References
The artist
Florian Froehlich was, when starting out in art, strongly influenced by the School of Paris, in particular by artists such as Maurice Estève, Charles Lapicque and Nicolas de Staël. He had had contacts with the world of art on a regular basis from childhood on, as he is related to the famous Zurich art dealer Peter Nathan. He trained in medicine at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne until 1996 and thereafter developed a progressive and lasting activity as an artist in tandem with his professional life. He is living since 1996 in Porrentruy in the Swiss Jura. His close friendship and collaboration with the Swiss artist Jacques Minala lead him to become familiar with the technique of stained glass. Since 2003, he is member of the Swiss Stained Glass Artists Society Verarte.ch which led to several group exhibitions in the Vitromusée Suisse de Romont, in particular in 2009.
From 2003 to 2009, Froehlich worked intensely on the "Saignelégier Steles" for the catholic church in Saignelégier, Jura Switzerland, project which received national funding from the Swiss Confederation, and which was executed in collaboration with the glass master-craftsman Roland Béguin), and the metalwork artist J.-P. Scheuner using experimental techniques. The novel concept of the stele allow to keep all the church's luminosity by occupying only a very limited space. In contrast to normal stained glass which is not lit, Froehlich is using in Saignelégier artificial light: indeed, three steles, called the Golgotha group, are strongly backlit. Every of the 21 four-meter high steles is associated with a text from the bible commented by Father Bernard Miserez. The dalle glass was produced specifically for this project, in Waldsassen (Germany). The Saignelégier Steles are a novel contribution to contemporary sacred glasswork.
Occasionally, Froehlich creates in relation to world events, such as for the Jura leg of the Tour de France 2012: he showed an art installation exhibited to thousands of spectators over a 24-hour period on July 8, 2012. In 2012 and 2013, his work was presented at the Berliner Liste, a reputed and selective international art fair.
Since 2010, Froehlich has worked very regularly with the ACHTZIG Gallery for Contemporary Fine Art in Berlin. The ACHTZIG Gallery staged a solo exhibition of Froehlich's work in December 2013, entitled "World Theatre-Theatre World". At his occasion a book with his same title has been published by Editions Le Renard par la Queue, Lausanne, directed by the author Ferenc Rákóczy in a contemporary design by Chloé Donzé and contributions by the journalist José Ribeaud. Currently, Froehlich's work is focusing on the human being and the interaction between individual and crowds. Froehlich creates a kind of virtual human microcosmos notably by micro-sculptures integrated in painting-sculptures and sculpture-paintings.
In fall 2013, Froehlich had the novel idea to suggest the scenic integration of microsculptures in watches. This idea was officially presented to Swiss watchmakers, with the support of Pascal Bourquard and BIWI.