Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Wah Steel, the exhibition of new paintings by a Berlin-based Canadian artist Robin Fry who is known as a painter and performing artist. This is his second solo-show with Hiromart Gallery following his favorably received debut show in Japan held in 2012.

The show features the works from new project ‘Psychedelic Rock Opera’ by Robin Fry and this will be his long-term project with potential that will lead to paintings, writing, sounds and performance. In this show, Robin Fry pursues and expands his abstract art bringing in figurative arts into abstract within the abstraction based on the story he has in his mind throughout his experiences and obsessions. The subjects are a werewolf, harlequin and mime for his Psychedelic Rock Opera. Fry will presents narrative abstract paintings as a story teller to viewers.

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Each of these recent paintings envisions a partially abstract sculpture depicting a figure which represents an unrealized subject for a yet to be written psychedelic rock opera. The paintings operate as distorting or prismatic windows into the world of the opera, giving a glimpse of the various players within it. The lead role is a werewolf with a fetish for certain 1980‘s instruction manuals for various electronic devices. Naming himself after a synthesized steel drum he is “Wah Steel”.

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Robin Fry
Born in 1976 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. He studied painting at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Receiving his BFA from NSCAD in 2002 he moved to Toronto where he focused on producing and exhibiting painting, sculpture and video.
His solo exhibition was held at Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Hunter and Cook gallery in Toronto and Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver. He was also involved with various experimental music groups. In 2009 he moved to Berlin and is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Most recent, his 1st solo show with Hiromart Gallery and is his debut show in Japan titled Golden Altitudes held in 2012, and the same year his solo-show was held at Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto, Canada.