Enrico Freitag
Enrico Freitag (1981) studied Fine Arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. While still a student, he was a co-founder of Gallery Eigenheim, a place for contemporary art and communication, which is based in Weimar and Berlin today. In 2009 he participated on a 6-week residency of the Bauhaus Lab in Marseille. In 2015 he followed a two-month residency in Amsterdam. In the same year he was awarded the scholarship for Fine Arts of the Free State of Thuringia.
As a starting point for his figurative paintings Enrico Freitag uses image processing techniques like montage and collage to cut and mix historical photographs with prepared newspapers and video clips or even his own painted works. The paintings are often dominated by brown and black, and are partially wrapped in an intense moody lighting; the scenes look realistic and indeterminate at the same time. Fascinated by the difference between objective reality and subjective deformed memory, Freitag combines spatial and temporal separated parts, mounts it to a new fictional ensemble, and provides the possibility of present-time-related associations and interpretations.
In Enrico’s work people play a leading role. He deals with the issues of the human being in relation to its working environment: feelings of alienation and fear of being absorbed by nameless masses in generic working places is the main theme in Freitag’s paintings and watercolors. In his paintings with the title Der Grosse Traum von Glück (The big dream of happiness) the daydreaming individuals may be dreaming about happiness, but are they? Captured in the domain of the working place, using the table to take a nap, these dreams seem far from reality. The otherwise empty spaces, which surround the figures, the shelves and cupboards empty, symbolize the gap between reality and fantasy.
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Enrico Freitag
Painter on his way to work 24 Feb - 30 Mar 2024Rutger Brandt Gallery presents Painter on his way to work by Enrico Freitag. Freitag's exhibition titled 'Painter on his way to work' delves into both art historical discourse and his...Read more -
Volta New York
7 - 11 Mar 2018For Volta NY 2018 (booth D17) we conceived a two-artist dialogue around the human experience, though perspectives of memory and labor. Anna Bittersohl culls from an internal database of sorts...Read more -
PAN Amsterdam
19 - 26 Nov 2017PAN AMSTERDAM: FAIR FOR ART, ANTIQUES AND DESIGN RAI Amsterdam conference building Europaplein 20 1078 GZ Amsterdam Booth 88Read more -
Enrico Freitag
The pursuit of happiness 9 Jun - 8 Jul 2017The Pursuit of Happiness is an exhibition of selected new works by painter Enrico Freitag (b. 1981, Germany). The paintings explore the promises and hopes surrounding free market capitalism, depicting...Read more -
PAN
20 - 27 Nov 2016PAN 2016 AMSTERDAM - Booth 88 20 NOVEMBER - 27 NOVEMBER / 2016 THE ART, ANTIQUES AND DESIGN FAIR OF TODAY 20-27 November 2015 Daily 11AM - 7PM 22 November...Read more -
Rundgang der Spinnerei Galerien
16 - 18 Sep 201615 international galleries are invited by the Spinnerei Galleries for this year´s traditional autumn gallery tour (Rundgang) at the former cotton spinning mill in Leipzig. Please visit us at the...Read more -
Art Paris
31 Mar - 3 Apr 2016For the Promises section of Art Paris I’ve chosen three young artists that complement each other. The emphasis lies on Natalia Ossef, the very promising Syrian/Dutch artist who is currently...Read more -
PAN Amsterdam
22 - 29 Nov 2015Rutger Brandt Gallery will be participating in the PAN Amsterdam Art Fair, the art, antiques and design fair of today! Visit us at booth 132.Read more -
Slick art fair
10th edition 21 - 25 Oct 2015Rutger Brandt Gallery will be participating in SLICK Art Fair , France’s most important fair devoted to the discovery of emerging international artists, showcases highly innovative contemporary artists and reveals...Read more