Peter Gric

Peter Gric
Born Petr Gric
1968
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Nationality Austrian, Czech
Education Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Alma mater Master of Fine Arts, 1988-1993 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Known for painting, drawing
Movement Surrealism, Dark art
Website gric.at

Peter Gric or Petr Gric (born 1968) is Austrian painter, drawer and illustrator originally from Czech Republic. In his art appear motives of futuristic landscapes and architecture, biomechanical surrealism and fantastic realism.[1] Gric is member of the art groups Libellule and Labyrinthe.[2][3]

Life

Petr Gric was born in 1968 in Brno, former Czechoslovakia. His parents supported his talent in painting and drawing, which he exhibited when he was young.[4] In 1980 his parents, under the pretense described as vacation travel, emigrated through Hungary and Yugoslavia to Austria, and Gric thenceforth lived in Western Europe. They spent one year in the countryside of Reichenau an der Rax. They soon moved to Linz where Gric finished primary school and studied graphic design at the Höhere Technische Lehranstalt. In 1988 he moved to Vienna where he began to study under Arik Brauer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[4][5] He finished his studies with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1993.[1] While still in college, he participated in several exhibitions and started to sell his work successfully.[4] In 1996, Gric presented his work about the connection of painting and computer graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[5]

In 2009, he moved from Vienna to Höflein an der Hohen Wand.[4]

Work

Painting Network IV (fragment), acryl on canvas

Working as an artist for a living, he creates new works irregularly. Before exhibiting, he works intensively, but often without creating anything for weeks and only experiments with graphic software and geometry for his new work. Smaller formats works take him a few days or weeks to create. Large works take him months to finish. However, many of them are in progress for a very long time and only finished after several years. Some of his paintings are several meters in size.[5][6][7]

Technics

Gric's painting are technically precise. He uses oil paint, acrylic paint, or combinations thereof. He also uses airbrushes. Most of his work he designs in graphic software and the more complex pieces, he models in 3D software.[6] Despite his work in computer graphics, it is not his primary medium.[5]

Motives

His art is a combination of futuristic landscapes and architecture, biomechanical surrealism and fantastic realism.[5] Before his artistic career, he was influenced by science fiction illustrators Chris Moore, Peter Elson and by Star Wars movies. However, his biggest influence was surrealistic paintings by his father, and artists like Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Samuel Bak, Alfred Kubin, Hans Ruedi Giger and later Zdzisław Beksiński, Odd Nerdrum and De Es Schwertberger.[6] Most of his inspirations are from nature and architecture, but he is also fascinated by erosion, abstract geometry and women's bodies. Gric creates visions and fantasy that he himself can't explain. Like Beksiński, he doesn't care about interpretations of his works.[8]

Gric declared about his art:

I find it hard to explain what I’m painting, or why; actually, I don’t see any reason to analyse or justify my work. However, I like enigmas – they seem so boundless as long as they are unsolved.[3]

Exhibitions and collaboration

In 2007, he participated in the design of the stage for the SamPlay production Hamlet in Rock.[9][10] In 2010, he worked on the Concept Design for the project "At the Mountains of Madness" by director Guillermo del Toro. Since 2011, Gric teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[11]

Many of Gric's works are in personal or public collections: Austrian state gallery Belvedere; Immuno AG; Municipal Gallery in Traun; Kunstlerhaus München; Art Visionary Collection in Melbourne; Rardy van Soest Collection in Houten, Netherlands; Trierenberg Art in Traun; beinArt Collection, Austria; Westermann Collection, Australia.

Exhibitions

1989

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1993

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2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Publications

References

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  1. 1 2 Inspiration: Peter gric
  2. ↑ Labyrinthe
  3. 1 2 Leoplaw: Peter Gric Archived August 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Peter Gric#Info
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Doležálek, Jan. "Peter Gric". DarkArt (in Czech). Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 Interview with Peter Gric
  7. ↑ Peter Gric -Space-Warp Machine II
  8. ↑ Peter Gric: The Worlds Of Imagination
  9. ↑ SamPlay: Bühnenaufbau
  10. ↑ Hamlet in Rock photos
  11. ↑ Facebook -Peter Gric
  12. ↑ Android Awakening
  13. ↑ Group Exhibit
  14. ↑ Astronauten
  15. ↑ Visionares: The Art of the Fantastic
  16. ↑ IMAGO - Phantastic Art
  17. ↑ Last Rites Gallery
  18. ↑ Copro Gallery: beinArt 2013
  19. ↑ Vimm-Gallery
  20. ↑ LA Art Show
  21. ↑ Scope NY 2014

External links

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