DAVID FRIED 
selected recent works

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In bed with lucy and dolly
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Rainscapes
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Vesicles of endevour 
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Stemmers
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selection abstract sculptures

Stemmers | Systemmers | Translibrium

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Stemmers

contemporary art abstract steel sculpture david fried David Fried, Stemmer, S2, 2015, mirror polished stainless steel. 140 x 135 x 415 cm.

abstract sculptureDavid Fried, Stemmer, No.8b, 2012, acrylic and urethane, paint, 30 x 39 x 64 cm.

abstract sculpture david friedDavid Fried, Stemmer, S3-2013, stainless steel, 50 x 60 x 120 cm.


Stemmers - Sculptures

The networked spheres and interdependent multifaceted structures found in each sculpture suggest a multitude of processes and phenomena in the natural and built environment. While their forms clearly follow basic laws of economy and self-organization found in adaptive bubble structures, there is also an intended association to organic cell clusters.

With an emphasis on the most fundamental form of autonomy—the Membrane: both a barrier and communicator between the self and the environment—Fried suggests an abstract embodiment of the origin of life-forms - natural or engineered.

Their forms appear in an undifferentiated yet fertile state—like a Venus von Willendorf at conception—full of potential, ready for chance, influence and self-determination. Anti-fragile balancing acts operating far from equilibrium - individualities in an interdependent process of becoming.

In Fried’s mirror polished stainless steel versions, we see the environment and ourselves reflected in the faceted surfaces, absorbed 360° by the sculpture. Its appearance is integrated with–and largely defined by its environment, hinting that one‘s sense of identity is a complex development of ‘nature and nurture’.

The sharp networked angles formed by intersecting spheres of varying size result in dynamic shapes that in spite of their clean mathematical origin appear biological, and seem to possess an abstract yet curiously personal character.

Fried coined the term ‘Stemmer’ as a personifying name for stem-cell creations. Currently the stem-cell is the most promising yet controversial, programmable, self-reproducing building-block on a cellular level, which in the hands of the genetic engineer, has become the absolute malleable ‘bio-porcelain’ of choice at the turn of this century.

As in many of Fried’s other works, the artist presents us with minimalist symbolic imagery that suggests a fusion of mythological and scientific beliefs, while calling attention to the manipulative processes that are now deeply rooted in our cultures. By resurrecting and modernizing humankind’s oldest fertility icons—in an era whereby applied technologies are trumping the oldest form of reproduction and evolution—with fertility icons of a synthetic nature, Fried confronts us with our desire and ability to alter nature’s course, and perhaps the future of our own evolutionary process.


biotech fertility iconsDavid Fried, Stemmers


david_fried_abstract_sculpture_minimal_artDavid Fried, Stemmer, ST2-22, 2022, stainless steel, flip-flop lacquer, 35 x 33 x 74 cm.

david_fried_stemmer_abstract_sculpture_minimal_artDavid Fried, Stemmer, ST3-22, 2022, stainless steel, flip-flop lacquer, 35 x 30 x 80 cm.

Stemmer Sculpture No.5David Fried, Stemmer, No.5, 2005, acrylic and urethane, paint, 130 x 58 x 47 cm.

david fried minimal sculpturesDavid Fried, Stemmer, 2006, No.10, acrylic and urethane, paint, 64 x 38 x 32 cm.

David Fried, Stemmer, no.2, 2003. acrylic and urethane, paint, 50 x 55 x 85 cm.

David Fried, Stemmer, No.7, 2005, acrylic and urethane, paint, 115 x 57 x 50 cm.

david-fried_permanent_sculpture-installationDavid Fried, Stemmer, S2, 2015, mirror polished stainless steel. 415 x 135 x 140 cm.

minimal sculpture david friedDavid Fried, Stemmer ST-2-18, 2018, polished stainless steel, 55 x 45 x 167 cm.

minimal sculpture david fried 2018David Fried, Stemmer ST-2-18, 2018, polished stainless steel, 55 x 45 x 167 cm.

minimal sculpture abstract contemporary artDavid Fried, Stemmer ST-1-18, 2018, polished stainless steel, 60 x 70 x 160 cm.

minimal sculpture - abstract contemporary artDavid Fried, Stemmer ST-1-18, 2018, polished stainless steel, 60 x 70 x 160 cm.

David Fried, Stemmer, No.T1, 2009, acrylic and urethane, paint, 87 x 37 x 30 cm

David Fried, Stemmer, No.6c, 2012, acrylic and urethane, paint, 100 x 42x 40 cm.

abstrakt Minimal SkulpturStemmer, No.ST3-15, 2015, acrylic and urethane, paint, 45 x 45 x 187cm.

contemporay art, stainless steel sculpture - edelstahl skulpturStemmer, S4-2012, stainless steel, 36 x 60 x 70 cm.

minimal abstract artStemmer, ST3-09, 2019, stainless steel, 50 x 56 x 120 cm.

Geometric sculpturesDavid Fried, Stemmer, No.1, 2005, acrylic and urethane, paint, 47 x 37 x 30 cm

suspended sculptureDark Matters, installation Ostrale Dresden, 2014. Stainless Steel, ca. 500 x 500 cm.

stainless hanging sculpture Stemmer, H1, 2010, stainless steel, 35 x 30 x 30 cm.

Stemmer, H1, 2010, stainless steel, 36 x 22 x 20 cm.

scultpure suspended Installation Interversalities, H2-15, 2015, stainless steel, 300 x 240 x 200 cm.


zeitgenössische kunst skulpturen contemporay art sculptures David Fried, Stemmer, No.4b, 2009, acrylic, urethane, pearlescent paint, 129x60x60 cm.

abstract contemporary sculptures David Fried, Stemmer no.7e/5e, 2006, resin, pealescent lack, each ca. 10 x 10 x 24 cm.

abstrakt-skulptur_david-friedDavid Fried, Stemmer, G15-09, 2015, 20 x 20 x 25 cm. PLA, resin, stone, lacquer.



Systemmers

david_fried_sculpture_2017_museum_kunstpalast_2017David Fried, Systemmer, SST-5, 2016, 280 x 145 x 152 cm. stainless steel, lacquer.

Die Grosse NRW 2017David Fried, Systemmer, SST-6, 2016, 135 x 140 x 160 cm. stainless steel, lacquer.

David Fried Abstract Sculpture  systemmerDavid Fried, Systemmer, S3-16, 2016, 47 x 50 x 46 cm. stainless-steel, lacquer

david fried systemmer sculptureDavid Fried, Systemmer, S1-16, 2016, 45 x 53 x 76 cm. stainless-steel, pu powdercoat

david fried systemmer sculptureDavid Fried, Systemmer, S2-16, 2016, 32 x 37 x 48cm. stainless-steel, lacquer



Translibriums

david fried translibrium minimal sculptureDavid Fried, Translibrium, 1-16, 2016, 39 x 45 x 59 cm. mdf, lacquer

david fried contemporary art minimal sctulptureDavid Fried, Translibrium, 2-16, 2016, 58 x 54 x 45 cm. mdf, lacquer

david fried contemporary art bubble abstract sculptureDavid Fried, Translibrium, 3-16, 2016, 44 x 42 x 49 cm. mdf, lacquer

david fried contemporary art abstract sculpturesDavid Fried, Translibrium, 3L-16, 2L-16, 2016

Fried sculpture detailDavid Fried, Translibrium , detail

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