An Interview with Artist Gudrun Mertes-Frady
by Julia Karabenick
Geoform, August 2006
I’m driven to move ahead, to reach beyond myself.
My focus has always been on abstract art. I’m attracted to its reduction of the ‘real’ to its essence, to its freedom of formulation. My interest is in the mathematics of the surface. Abstraction takes more than seeing – it takes contemplation. My aim is to elicit magic, a feeling of something that can’t be grasped with the head only. That is what interests me when I look at art – I want the experience.
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