Oil, acrylic on burlap on cotton
36 x 28 cm
Unique piece (in series of 4)
signed, dated
“Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?” asked Barnett Newman polemically in a series of works from 1966 to 1970. Standing in the tradition of color field painting, Sabrina Fritsch’s paintings possess a serenity and unforced joy of color despite all their formal rigor and precision. For her exhibition in June 2020 at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast, Sabrina Fritsch realized a conceptual installation, which was specially conceived for the space, of paintings in the four colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and jet black (key) entitled Charlie Mike Yankee Kilo. The four colors used in offset printing are also the starting point for her painterly research of the small-format works the artist is making available to the Kölnischer Kunstverein as Jahresgabe. “By relying on a color system that wasn’t derived from the observation of nature like Goethe’s Theory of Colours but originates from the industrial printing process, Sabrina Fritsch turns her painting into a timely proposition in which questions of artistic originality must be posed anew and differently than in the ‘heroic’ phase of 20th century abstraction.” (Cf. Kay Heymer, Öland – Düsseldorf, September 2021)
Sabrina Fritsch (*1979 in Neunkirchen/Saar, lives in Cologne) has been a professor of painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf since 2021. Most recently, her works were shown in solo exhibitions at Van Horn in Düsseldorf (2021 and 2018) and at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2020). In 2019, the artist was awarded the Landsberg Prize.
