Artforum, November 1st, 2003
BERNARD FRIZE
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS
What is the greatest number of color fields that can be arranged so that each maintains a border with all others? Bernard Frize's Heawood, 1999, a pair of painted sculptures in the permanent collection of the MAMVP, and Heawood, 2003, the thirteen digital prints that introduce this show of the artist's mostly recent paintings, address this thorny question. The works' namesake, British mathematician Percy John Heawood, labored over this and related problems (which originated in cartography) in the years surrounding the turn of the last ce...
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