Frédéric Iriarte

Who is Frédéric Iriarte?

Frédéric Iriarte, born in 1963 in Paris, is a contemporary plastic artist. He lives and works in Sweden since 1986.

In the 1980s he belonged to the avant-garde movement Figuration Libre fr:Figuration libre and presented his works, among others, Galerie Beaubourg, the Marianne and Pierre Nahon Gallery and the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art City of Paris. It was during his travels, known and worked with a number of graffiti artists, performance artists, videos, films, photographers and musicians such as Ben Vautier, Herve Di Rosa, fr:Speedy Graphito, fr:Jerome Mesnager, sv:Kjartan Slettemark, Bengt Lindström, Kaj and Ficaja, Brain and others.

On his arrival in Sweden, perilous road hitchhiking in January 1986, he designed sets for theater groups such as avant-garde Aurora Teater Hilda Hellwig, Claes Peter Hellwig Stockholm for example.

His works have been recognized mainly through its projects, exhibitions, TV interviews, newspaper articles, art critics and bibliographic editions of books and art book éditions..