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About the Artist

MgA. Jiří Frič

Sculptural Form, Material, Story and Symbol

Jiří Frič is a Czech sculptor whose work explores the relationship between mass, form, material and space. His practice grows out of his education in stage design and painting, extensive international experience, and sustained sculptural work with stainless steel, stone, glass and water.

A sculptor with extensive international experience, translating symbols, the memory of place and material into a distinctive artistic form.

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Hlavní fotografie díla Jiřího Friče

Jiří Frič’s artistic practice has its own story, form and expression; it naturally engages with space and becomes part of it.

Jiří Frič and Artforest

Jiří Frič represents one of the defining artistic strands of the Artforest brand —
a family platform that brings together the work of Jiří and Vilém Frič.

Artforest provides a unified platform for presenting sculptures, fountains, objects, paintings, glass works and original installations to galleries, architects, collectors, investors and the public realm.

Artist Profile

Jiří Frič, MgA., was born in Prague in 1949. He studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he focused on stage design and painting.

Throughout his exhibition, display-design and international work, he continued to develop sculptures, art objects, fountains and material-based work. In recent years, he has returned to independent sculpture with renewed focus and greater room for his own artistic ideas.

“For Jiří Frič, giving matter form means giving it artistic expression.”

„A tak jeho objekty, obrazy a plastiky jsou živými partnery člověka, jsou nám od prvního spatření podivuhodně blízké, poněvadž se zrodily z pocitu člověka naší doby. Vytváří dílo otevřené do našeho světa a skutečného života, dílo, jehož integrální součástí se musí stát každý, kdo k němu přichází.“

Quote based on art historian František Dvořák’s text on Jiří Frič’s work, 1985.

Elements

sculptural form, mass, a scenographer’s sense of space

Motivy

symbol, story, memory of place, torso, outline, sign

Expression

formal stillness, the permanence of the object, work with material and scale

Portrét sochaře Jiřího Friče

Areas of Practice

Materials and Expression

In Jiří Frič’s work, stainless steel, stone, glass and water carry mass, light, symbolism and a sense of permanence. Material is not merely a technical choice; it is part of the work’s meaning and its relationship to space.

Exhibitions and international projects broadened his sensitivity to scale, technical execution and the meaning of a work in a specific place. Sculpture, art objects, fountains, glass and painting form a continuous artistic line in his practice.

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Education / Exhibitions / Projects

Education

1968–1973

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, stage design and painting

1964–1968

Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague

Exhibitions and Projects

2024Prague, Czech Republic — ART Prague Fair 2024, solo sculpture exhibition
2024Prague, Czech Republic – ČSOB headquarters, sculpture exhibition
2023Prague, Czech Republic — ART Prague Fair 2023, solo sculpture exhibition
2022 Prague, Czech Republic – ART FOR REST exhibition at Waltrovka, solo sculpture exhibition
2015 Prague, Czech Republic – exhibition, INNEX showroom
2010 2010–2015 independent work — sculptures, art objects, fountains, artistic and design accessories for interiors and exteriors (stainless steel, aluminium, glass, stone)
2009New Delhi, India – glass River / Crystal River, glass sculpture and Indira Gandhi memorial
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2003 New York (USA) – Tangle 12″
2002 San Francisko (USA) – Throne sculpture
2001 Las Vegas (USA) – Tangle 8″
2000 Unhošť (Czech Republic) – Memorial “S
1998 Unhošť (Czech Republic) – Hotel Galerie
1998 Unhošť (Czech Republic) – Icarus sculpture
1997 Prague, Czech Republic – Intercamera
1995 Unhošť (Czech Republic) – Hotel Galerie
1995 Tokyo, Japan – EXPO 96´ – Frontier City,
1992 Osaka, Japan – EXPO 92´ – Gas pavilon
1992 Akshardan, India — mosaic
1991 Brno, Czech Republic – exhibition — Japan — Kobelco
1989New Delhi, India – Skleněná řeka / Crystal River, památník Indíry Gándhíové
1989 Kuibyshev, USSR — museum
1989 Dallas (USA) – MW exhibition — Bretford
1989 Moscow, USSR — VDNKh pavilion
1987 Qatar — exhibition display
1986 Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan — “Starry Sky”
1994 West Germany — exhibition display for Mechanische Weberei
1984 Frunze, USSR — museum
1984 Abu Dhabi, UAE — villa of Mr. Musallam Maktoom
1984 New Orleans, USA — EXPO 84, “Message of the Rivers”
1982 Prague, Czech Republic – U Řečických Gallery — “Young Central Bohemian Artists”
1981 Unhošť (Czech Republic) – cultural centre
1980 Moscow, USSR — VDNKh pavilion
1979 Tokyo, Japan – palaeontology pavilion
1978 Montreal, Canada — Japanese pavilion
1978 Tehran, Iran — Sahiad III
1977 MONTREAL (Kanada) – international exhibition
1976 Gyrotron, Montreal, Canada — Olympic Pavilion 76
1976 Montreal 76, Canada — Iranian pavilion
1975 Tehran, Iran — Sahiad II / Persepolis section
1975 Okinawa, Japan — EXPO-OCEANS
1975 EXPO Spokane, USA
1974 Group exhibition “Work in AVS”
1973 Prague, Czech Republic – Divadlo DISK Prague
1973 Prague, Czech Republic – U Hybernů Exhibition Hall

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