Pedro Friedeberg

Statement

Friedeberg was part of a group of Mexican surrealist artists distinguished by their irreverence and rejection of the dominant politics of the time. Beginning in the sixties, he began to exhibit prolifically inside and outside the country, reaching the XXI century with more than seventy exhibitions in his artistic career.

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Florence, Italy, 1936.

Visual artist, draftsman, painter, sculptor, designer furniture, textile, and industrial. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1936, he arrived in Mexico at age three and developed in the society of European migrants, artists, scientists, and scholars from Mexico City.

He studied Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, studies that he left unfinished to fully dedicate himself to his artistic production on the advice of his teacher Matthias Goeritz.

His first exhibition was in 1959, at the Diana Gallery, thank you to the support of the artist Remedios Varo. Since then, the success of the teacher increased, even more so with the creation of the Hand of Akhenaten, better known as the Hand-chair given international fame.

Friedeberg has had over 80 individual exhibitions and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions and projects. Ha was recognized with the Medal of Fine Arts in 2012. Recently, a building designed by Rem Koolhaas inaugurated a monumental fountain in the Gardens of Mexico, Morelos.

He has also published the books “The Irrational House” and “Multiple Originals” in recent years. In 2017, it was included in the Hello World exhibition, carried out at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany. His most recent exhibition was shown at the Bembo Palace, Venice, Italy, within the framework of the Architecture Biennial.