Year: 1984
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 162 × 130 cm (36 3/ 4 × 51 1/4 in.)
Acquired from Sotheby’s, 2022
Unlike the typical image of Frize that is composed of strokes and stripes, this work is composed of random-looking layers of colors. However, it is still Frize’s work. Even in this seemingly chaotic work, there must be some kind of rules imposing the restrictions. Whether it is the logic in the colors and composition, or perhaps the rules for the order in which the colors are layered, there must be more subtle rules that are invisible. When the viewer becomes accustomed to this untracked overlapping of colors, the figures of humans and animals start to emerge from the depths of the painting. It seems as though the artist hides their concreteness intentionally. It is unlikely that Frize created this painting blindly. If the concreteness that must have been there clearly in the eyes of Frize is impossible for the viewers to find, then this may be the proof that this artwork has reached a supernatural level of artistic expression.
