David Fried
13.06. – 31.08.2002
In bed with Lucy & Dolly - Lifeline - SOS - Self Organizing Still-Life
Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main

"David Fried – Recent Works"
The New York born interdisciplinary artist David Fried presents recent works, which deal with fundamental common denominators and their potential recombination. Exploring our divers and labile environment, comprised of inidviduals – so called sovereign entities – entwined in a network that is constantly changing, his works speak of interdependent life, whereby the
periphery becomes the centre.
Fried's acoustically stimulated interactive sculptures "SOS - Self Organizing Still-Life" are compelling by their symbolically provocative simplicity, creating a live complex visual experience as the viewer is moved to forge perspectives on relationships,
life and the universe of thought.
David Fried's photographic works reveal relationships as delicate temporal architecture, emerging when the primary elements of life - water and air - get together. Reflecting further on the human condition, these images that resemble living cells called "In bed with Lucy and Dolly", take us on a biomorphical journey "from the Cambrian sea to the artificial womb". The title refers to Lucy (the early hominoid Mother), to Us (the Myth), and to Dolly the sheep (the Missing Link) in a dialogue that seeks orientation in a world in which man has moved from controlling the environment to the inescapable urge to invent our predeces-
sors.
As we have become genetic designers that continue to shape the global landscape and the future, we face new challanges
concerning the balance of nature to find solutions for the benefit of a sustainable,yet rapidly changing world.
Fried's works echo our process of seeking and learning as we plunge into the polarities of 21st century thought and deed.

Text by Prof. Dr. Norbert Bolz (foreword of the catalogue)


SOS – Self Organizing Still-Life
The Acronym S.O.S implies communication within the trust of an interdependent social system.
Fried has chosen “Self Organizing Still Life”, or SOS, as the working title for his ongoing series of sound-stimulated interactive
sculptures, which premiered in 1998.
Whatever the scale or materials used for the SOS, all of these works consist of solid spheres, which are stirred into motion by
ambient sound on a predetermined level object.
Audible sound is transformed into waves that stimulate each of the spheres silently into motion. Fried is able to give an individual character to each of the spheres, allowing them to respond and behave differently to live sound, though the artist is able
to give each entire SOS a particular tendency of choreographic response.
The resulting choreography is live and directly initiated by its environment. The action of the individual spheres and their interactions with one another are undetermined.
The spheres rearrange themselves in continually new patterns of elegantly fluid choreography. – Some kiss, some spin off alone, while others race head-on only to meet with a soft embrace- or swerve around one another, often changing the path
and destiny of each other without physical contact.
Each sphere is able to feel the other.
When an acoustic signal is no longer detected, the spheres come to rest in ever-different constellations: Still-Life.

1962 Born in NYC
1989~ Living and working in Düsseldorf

June 14, 2002
Kunst in Bewegung - Traveling Exhibition: Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kunstmuseum Aalen

June 13, 2002
"In bed with Lucy & Dolly - Lifeline - SOS - Self Organizing Still-Life", Solo-Exhibition at Gallery Poller, Frankfurt am Main, curated by Ewa Nowik

2002 Gallery Poller, curated by Ewa Nowik, Frankfurt am Main
2002 Baker & McKenzie, Frank O.Gehry Building, Düsseldorf
2001 Gallery Christian Hohmann, Hamburg
2001 Night of the Museums, Düsseldorf, solo exhibition & video performance at Jörg Immendorff Studio
2000 Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne
1998 Martin Kudlek Fine Art, Cologne
1987 The B.A.D. Gallery, NYC
1985 The B.A.D. Gallery, NYC
1984 Alain Bilhaud Gallery, NYC
1982 Alain Bilhaud Gallery, NYC

2002 Gleicher Ort Neue Zeit, Düsseldorf
2002 Gallery Christian Hohmann Hamburg, at: Art Frankfurt
2001 Gallery Martin Kudlek Cologne, at: KunstKöln, Art Brussels, Art Frankfurt
2001 Gallery Christian Hohmann Hamburg, at: Art Frankfurt
2001 Gallery Martin Kudlek Cologne, at: KunstKöln 2001
2001 NewLeaf Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Stadt Museum Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Permanent Installation
2000 Gallery Martin Kudlek Cologne, at KunstKöln 2000
1999 De Chiara/Stewart Gallery NYC, at: Art Forum Berlin
1998 Martin Kudlek Fine Art, Aachen
1997 Martin Kudlek Fine Art, Aachen
1996 Schumacher/Fils Gallery, at: Art Multiple Düsseldorf
1993 Amerika Haus, Cologne
1992 Articom, Das Bild im Bild, Frankfurt am Main
1992 Kunstpalast, Visionäre Schweiz, Düsseldorf
1992 Hans Mayer Gallery Düsseldorf, at: Art Basel
1992 ID Gallery, Düsseldorf
1991 ID Gallery, Düsseldorf
1987 The B.A.D.Gallery, NYC
1986 The B.A.D.Gallery, NYC
1985 Jim Diaz Gallery, NYC
1985 The B.A.D.Gallery, NYC
1984 Gallery 51X, NYC
1984 N.Y.U. Contemporary Art Gallery, NYC
1984 Alain Bilhaud Gallery, NYC, Stolen Show, curated and exhibited
1983 Gabriel Bryers Gallery, NYC
1983 GuGu Ernesto Gallery, Cologne
1983 Galleria Lo Zebbetto, Milano
1983 Gallery 51X, NYC
1982 Brooklyn Terminal Show, NYC

Boon Falluet, Brussels
Stadt-Museum Gelsenkirchen
Rossini, Italy

David Fried