From another dimension.A jarring formal disorder smoldering from the juxtaposition of the conscious confronting the self-conscious. The work is not readily definable and there is an admittance on his part that his artistic activity is rooted in boredom. …
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Friedeberg:I get up at the crack of noon and, after watering my pirañas, I breakfast off things Corinthian. Later in the day I partake in an Ionic lunch followed by a Doric nap. On Tuesdays I sketch a volute or two, and perhaps a pediment, if the mood overtakes me. Wednesday I have set aside for anti-meditation. On Thursdays I usually relax whereas on Friday I write autobiographies.
Freideberg:When André Breton came to Mexico he said it was the chosen Country of surrealism. Breton saw all kinds of surrealist things happen here every day. The surrealists are more into dreaming, into the absurd and into the ridiculous uselesness of things. My work is always criticizing the absurdity of things. I am an idealist. I am certain that very soon now humanity will arrive at a marvelous epoch totally devoid of Knoll chairs, jogging pants, tennis shoes and baseball caps sideway use, and the obscenity of Japanese rock gardens five thousand miles from Kyoto. Read More:http://www.pedrofriedeberg.com/
Although Pedro Friedeberg autobiographies tend to be Corinthian, there are some plain facts in them. He was born in Italy in 1937, was brought to Mexico at an early age, studied architecture at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, and later became a pupil of the German-Mexican painter and sculptor Mathias Goeritz. He is wel-known for designing chairs. Buy one and Pedro Friedeberg will have you in the palm of his hand…
---"Creation is a subconscious and mysterious process. My work is extremely melancholic and I believe that all great work must have some sadness of the universal man, who has not been able to discover the mystery of existence." Read More:http://tequilasource.com/cuervoreserva/reserva-familia-2007.htm image:http://art.findartinfo.com/art.asp?i=143&p=578&old=1
Freideberg:I was born in Italy during the era of Mussolini, who made all trains run on time. Immediately thereafter, I moved to México where the trains are never on time, but where once they start moving they pass pyramids.
My education was first entrusted to a Zapotec governess and later to brilliant mentors such as Mathias Goeritz, who taught me morals, José González, who taught me carpentry, and Gerry Morris, who taught me to play bridge….
---it is clear however that there aren't many prospects that society will reorganize its current physical space to make room for communitarian experiments. nor that the predominant culture of capitalism will voluntarily discard itself and be replaced by a new culture of dialogue. we can still find within the predominant culture of capitalism a kernel of acceptance, vague as it might be, of the importance of dialogue, but the culture has not yet found a way to fully commit to the concept that all real life is encounter.---Read More:http://dialogicalecology.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-feasibility-of-dialogue.html image:http://assets0.artslant.com/global/artists/show/92761-pedro-friedeberg?tab=ART+WORKS
I have invented several styles of architecture, as well as one new religion and two salads. I am particularly fond of social problems and cloud formations. My work is profoundly profound.
I admire everything that is useless, frivolous and whim
l. I hate functionalism, post modernism and almost everything else. I do not agree with the dictum that houses are supposed to be ‘machines to live in’. For me, the house and it’s objects is supposed to be some crazy place that make you laugh. Read More:http://www.pedrofriedeberg.com/
---here's the issue: capitalism is not just an economic system, it is a mode of relationships, and it will only come to its end if we change the modes by which we relate to each other. we need to move from i-it to i-thou. i recognize that changing the modes of capitalist relationships is very difficult, as these relationships are embedded within the overriding and all encompassing culture of capitalism. it is from within the culture of capitalism that our current systems of relationships derive their meaning and of which they are its economic, social, spatial and political embodiment. in the culture of capitalism, every side in any dual or larger relationship is an 'it', a commodity accompanied by its correspondent monetized worth-value. it is therefore imperative to reconsider our modes of relationships and seek to transform our culture of being-as-commodity, to a new culture of being-as-human. from radical i-it towards an approximation to a more human i-thou.---Read More:http://dialogicalecology.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-feasibility-of-dialogue.html image:http://www.pedrofriedeberg.com/Paintings.html
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