Sculptures, Photographs and

Self Organising Systems

David Fried has developed a visual language around  living systems and their becoming. "My concepts involve qualities of chance, emergent complexity, interdependent and dynamic re-lationships found in nature and society, with underlaying hints of the human urge to control, manipulate and predict outcomes" (Fried).

He works in a variety of media: With his "Stemmer" sculptures he creates anti-fragile balancing acts - somehow audacious strings of life. The photograms "Lucy and Dolly" depicting multi faceted fluid structures may evoke associations to the origin of life...the membrane, both, barrier and communicator between the self and its environment.

David Fried has also integrated the element of time: in his kintetic works he creates self organising systems influenced by sound and speech. Handmade spheres out of var-ios materials (e.g. marble, rare earth, synthetic polymers, or solid stones) interact in a live choreagraphy - unpredicatble, but scripted by its surroundings (see video below). Through long exposures with a camera from above he captures these movements in calligraphic motiongrams titled "Way of Words". 

Picturing dynamic systems is the theme of his early "Rainscapes" and the steel sculptures or wall-pieces where he arranges reflecting orbs in interdependent constellations referring to communication and social networks.  

Born and raised in New York David Fried moved to Germany in 1989 and lives since then in Dusseldorf and NYC. Already at the age of 8 he earned numourous awards for his paintings and staged his first solo show in Rockefeller Plaza at the age of 14.

In the early to mid 1980ties he was along with Basquiat and Haring active in the New York street art scene. He has mounted several solo exhibitions in galleries, institutions and museums across Europe and has been exhibiting on five continents.

David's  works can be found in prominent private collections and exhibitions, e.g. "Genesis - The Art of Creation,” alongside Antony Gormley, Bruce Nauman, LeWitt and others at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland and with Gunter Uecker, Alexander Calder, Heinz Mack at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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