ABOUT
Peter Freund is usually working on something else. He writes to avoid making art and makes art to avoid writing. He is a sometimes curator so as to avoid his own work, but usually that inspires him to write or make art. His projects have routinely used appropriation as an instrument to cut conceptual holes in the fabric of historical memory and related enigmas.
Peter is co-founder of the Barcelona-based artist collective, Adversorecto. The collective deploys the conceit and quasi-methodology of «retraction» for producing individual and collaborative works via an aesthetic of algorithmic reduction
and a process based on non-consensus.
Peter has exhibited in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and the Middle East. Since 2018, he has been based in Barcelona and has collaborated with various art and research venues in Spain, Portugal, and Germany. Freund is Professor of Art at Saint Mary's College of California (USA), currently on leave.
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