- Sarah Fripon
Fine, Thank You
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present Fine, Thank You, Sarah Fripon’s first solo exhibition in Italy. The project is part of the gallery’s project room programme, and features a series of new paintings in dialogue with sculptural elements created by the artist in response to the specificity of the exhibition site.
Drawing on a sizeable archive of digital images, screenshots, stock photos, advertisements and iconic images – quoted, combined and elaborated through free concatenations of ‘visual associations’ – Fripon’s pictorial practice reflects the paradoxes of the contemporary world in a time of crisis. Created mainly using soft colours, the paintings appear blurred and faded, like out-of-focus snapshots of fleeting moments and vanishing memories, generating an effect of visual misalignment.
Like a time capsule time capsule that preserves and archives its current state of energy and exchange, the project recreates an environment that yields fragments of images and objects from a distorted society continually fed by deceptive capitalist superstructures with no means to an end. Vague and concrete, the title suggests a signal, an almost self-evident and ‘automatic’ answer to a question that, although intuitable, we are not allowed to know, at least for now.
Sarah Fripon (b. 1989, Zeitz, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. She holds a BA in Fashion Design and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Solo exhibitions include: Harkawik Gallery, New York (2023); Pilot, Vienna (2022) and Chris Andrews Gallery, Montréal (with Chloe Seibert) (2022). Her work has been exhibited in group shows at Vin Vin, Vienna (2023); Harkawik, Los Angeles (2022); Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg (2021); Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (2020) and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (2019), among others. Her works may be found in the collection of the Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Collection of the Vienna Museum. Fripon is currently a Fellowship Awardee of the Bank Austria Studios 2022–24.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present Fine, Thank You, Sarah Fripon’s first solo exhibition in Italy. The project is part of the gallery’s project room programme, and features a series of new paintings in dialogue with sculptural elements created by the artist in response to the specificity of the exhibition site.
Drawing on a sizeable archive of digital images, screenshots, stock photos, advertisements and iconic images – quoted, combined and elaborated through free concatenations of ‘visual associations’ – Fripon’s pictorial practice reflects the paradoxes of the contemporary world in a time of crisis. Created mainly using soft colours, the paintings appear blurred and faded, like out-of-focus snapshots of fleeting moments and vanishing memories, generating an effect of visual misalignment.
Like a time capsule time capsule that preserves and archives its current state of energy and exchange, the project recreates an environment that yields fragments of images and objects from a distorted society continually fed by deceptive capitalist superstructures with no means to an end. Vague and concrete, the title suggests a signal, an almost self-evident and ‘automatic’ answer to a question that, although intuitable, we are not allowed to know, at least for now.
Sarah Fripon (b. 1989, Zeitz, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. She holds a BA in Fashion Design and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Solo exhibitions include: Harkawik Gallery, New York (2023); Pilot, Vienna (2022) and Chris Andrews Gallery, Montréal (with Chloe Seibert) (2022). Her work has been exhibited in group shows at Vin Vin, Vienna (2023); Harkawik, Los Angeles (2022); Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg (2021); Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (2020) and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (2019), among others. Her works may be found in the collection of the Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Collection of the Vienna Museum. Fripon is currently a Fellowship Awardee of the Bank Austria Studios 2022–24.
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Sarah Fripon, Brassy Houses, 2021Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 x 2,5 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Sarah Fripon, If Only I Could, 2023Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 x 2,5 cm (each). Courtesy the artist.
Sarah Fripon, Businessman Sitting on a White Fluffy Cloud Enjoying HimselfAcrylic on canvas, 72x110x2,5 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Sarah Fripon, Esoteric Pipe 1, 2023Zinc pipes, glass sphere, LED spot, cable, 40x40x35 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Esoteric Pipe 2, 2023Zinc pipes, glass sphere, cable, 175x15x15 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Sarah Fripon, Esoteric Pipe 3, 2023Zinc pipes, glass sphere, cable, 110x15x30 cm.
Courtesy the artist.
Drawing on a sizeable archive of digital images, screenshots, stock photos, advertisements and iconic images, quoted, combined and elaborated through free concatenations of visual associations, Sarah Fripon’s pictorial practice reflects the paradoxes of the contemporary world in times of crisis, where society constantly feeds on deceptive capitalist super-structures which provide no means to any end. The idea of the “quotation” can also be found in the tridimensional space where the artist works for her projects. Fripon indeed takes into consideration the architectural peculiarities of the sites, reflecting on how structural specificities can become part of the setting or providing hints for the creation of sculptural elements.
Created mainly using soft colours, the paintings appear blurred and faded, like out-of-focus snapshots of fleeting moments, vanishing memories and lost places. Mysterious and at times far-fetched, her scenarios blend with ordinary and familiar situations, generating an effect of visual misalignment, further emphasised by the use of the airbrush – the stylistic hallmark of her entire production. The fleeting and undefined outlines of the subjects portrayed seem to invite spectators to distance themselves from them in order to fully grasp their clarity, as well as to come to terms with reality, questioning the truthfulness of the images we consume on a daily basis.
Sarah Fripon (b. 1989, Zeitz, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. She holds a BA in Fashion Design and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Solo exhibitions include: Harkawik Gallery, New York (2023); Pilot, Vienna (2022) and Bau 2-6, Vienna (2019). Her work has been exhibited in group shows at Vin Vin, Vienna (2023); Harkawik, Los Angeles (2022); Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg (2021); Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (2020) and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (2019), among others. Her works may be found in the collection of the Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Collection of the Vienna Museum. Fripon is currently a Fellowship Awardee of the Bank Austria Studios 2022–24.
Drawing on a sizeable archive of digital images, screenshots, stock photos, advertisements and iconic images, quoted, combined and elaborated through free concatenations of visual associations, Sarah Fripon’s pictorial practice reflects the paradoxes of the contemporary world in times of crisis, where society constantly feeds on deceptive capitalist super-structures which provide no means to any end. The idea of the “quotation” can also be found in the tridimensional space where the artist works for her projects. Fripon indeed takes into consideration the architectural peculiarities of the sites, reflecting on how structural specificities can become part of the setting or providing hints for the creation of sculptural elements.
Created mainly using soft colours, the paintings appear blurred and faded, like out-of-focus snapshots of fleeting moments, vanishing memories and lost places. Mysterious and at times far-fetched, her scenarios blend with ordinary and familiar situations, generating an effect of visual misalignment, further emphasised by the use of the airbrush – the stylistic hallmark of her entire production. The fleeting and undefined outlines of the subjects portrayed seem to invite spectators to distance themselves from them in order to fully grasp their clarity, as well as to come to terms with reality, questioning the truthfulness of the images we consume on a daily basis.
Sarah Fripon (b. 1989, Zeitz, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. She holds a BA in Fashion Design and an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Solo exhibitions include: Harkawik Gallery, New York (2023); Pilot, Vienna (2022) and Bau 2-6, Vienna (2019). Her work has been exhibited in group shows at Vin Vin, Vienna (2023); Harkawik, Los Angeles (2022); Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg (2021); Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (2020) and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (2019), among others. Her works may be found in the collection of the Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Collection of the Vienna Museum. Fripon is currently a Fellowship Awardee of the Bank Austria Studios 2022–24.
- Edoardo Manzoni
- Jeanine Brito,
- Linda Carrara,
- Lulù Nuti
Renata Fabbri is delighted to announce that the artist has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024.
- Vlatka Horvat
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Opening Sept 14
Until 12/11/2023
Curated by Kristina Bonjeković Stojković
- Vlatka Horvat,
- Tim Etchells,
- Sophie Ko
Artissima
2nd – 5th November 2023
Oval | Torino
Main Section
Hall Orange | Booth 12
- Giovanni Kronenberg
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini
