Frank Fischer

His story

Frank Fischer born 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland, is currently based in the Netherlands.

Frank Fischer has a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Chelsea – London – UK, and is a Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007 winner.

The long lasting collaboration between Frank Fischer and the Radial Gallery led to numerous solo shows, institutional projects, commissioned works and the creations of specific painting series.

Dripping

Committing the colours to the hard aluminium surface is the result of a finely honed process developed by Fischer over years of experimentation. Frank Fischer found an affinity with gloss paint during his MA at Chelsea, and wanted to find a painting process that is endlessly repeatable, but still retains an element of chance.

Fischer ‘challenges chance’ by repeating single drips onto the smooth ground – and the work itself decides it is finished when all the drips are straight.

Driven by his search for arresting colour ranges, Frank Fischer explores the history of art and selects works purely based on the extent and order of their intrinsic colour spectrum. He then digitally processes the image and draws a selection line across the work just one pixel wide that samples the widest and most interesting colour palette.