MAX FREUND Austria, b. 1992
Overview
Max Freund is a Vienna based painter, dealing with the uncertainty of anthropocene ideas. His work unifies cross-cultural sign and image systems that modulate the hieroglyphics of our time. The dyed, reworked and overpainted surfaces link with accurate line drawings, raw gestures and immediate color combinations.
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Biography
Freund´s work unifies cross-cultural sign and image systems that modulate the hieroglyphics of our time. Through paintings, drawings and artist books he enables depictions to turn to pictograms and shift between their own resonance. The dyed, reworked and overpainted surfaces link with accurate line drawings, raw gestures and immediate color combinations. His interest in diverting materials from their intended use, placing them next to each other and overlaying them with thick oil paint, shapes the haptic feeling of the image and opens up a volatile dialogue.
After graduation in 2017 from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he participated in various international exhibitions, such as „your kid could not do this“ at G/ART/EN contemporary art space (IT) / „Pepsi Therapie“ at Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel (GER) / „Lieber Gott, ich kann nicht mehr“ at Elektrohalle Rhomberg (AT) / „Slow Nails“ at Parallel Vienna Art Fair (AT) among others.
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