Jurij Frey - Café, Paris

Artist: Jurij Frey
Technique: Oil on canvas
Signature: Plate signed
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realistic painting style whose color blocks and light contrasts still reveal the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches, which he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always allowing murkyness, an inertness in the contours of the forms that exist in each of us symbolizes existing doubt. For it is indeed the modern man who lives and works in the city who populates Jurij Frey's paintings. The artist explores the contrast between speed, acceleration of city life and personal, intimate search for serenity, peace, the need for nature, light, hiking and large spaces and points out the contradictions of today's world