Reviews and publicity
... I know that Frits Vogel's oeuvre is a hymn to life, the sun and to beauty, and a translation of what he has found in the beautiful surroundings of Vollore-Ville, where he has his roots has planted to multiple glory of Auvergne, the Auvergnats and the art.
I wish Frits Vogel to continue to draw inspiration from our beautiful country, which gives so much strength and beauty to his oeuvre, an oeuvre of light and harmony!
former president of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
531a / b diptych Oil on canvas 2x50x100cm January 1995
N ° 925 oil paint on canvas 100x150 cm March 2007
color ... is not it the very first word that naturally connects with Frits Vogel?
Color ... of an honest and glorious palette, where the orange and pink unite effortlessly with the green, the deep blue and the radiant yellow.
Color ... processed in thick layers with the knife to cause an inner 'big band' to erupt, to reconstruct a mineral world or to build an imaginary mega pole. A very architectural world, where the round shapes often have to give way to the straight lines. However, a world without chill, without unrest or fear of life; sun and light are never given away.
Jacques Duplouy
... Frits Vogel is a recognized master of contemporary art, a "valeur sure" of a new kind of painting that connects dynamism and classicism, of a real force characterized by a completely new view on the evolution of form and colour...
... Frits Vogel has the rich gifts of the colorist in his fingertips, as well as the treasures of perspective, embracing his canvases and setting them on fire. Arms full of architecture, polished with the file of the color spectrum ...
... he deforms a chaotic world in order to bring it back into balance ...
Line Debordes
N ° 855 oil paint on canvas 80x60 cm December 2003
... the art of Frits Vogel is for everything: the flaring of a deep, primitive and original feeling, that lies between the figurative and the abstract, between the natural and the intellectual, the creative and the chaotic. It is the wonderful moment in which everything vibrates and vibrates and everything resounds in a tumultuous burst of feelings ...
(Translations from French.)
... a truly versatile artist ...
In many cities of the United States and Canada, Frits Vogel showed us and created futuristic sculptured masterpieces ...
NYTimes
Frits vogel can be called an innovator or forerunner; it is difficult and it would be dangerous to say that he belongs to a certain school, his style is too personal, too dynamic, too alert and too varied.
Frits Vogel animates his works; some because of their intensity, their freedom, blazing as movable flames; others seem by their volume and shapes on dancing objects, which move and advance to the depths of the infinite.
In his way he is a choreographer of paint and color.
Frits Vogel is the connecting line between nature and man; his constant search and his inventive creativity support this complement. The work is clearly present, it imposes itself on you, it appears to be more than an interrogation or reflection. There are cloths that lead us to unknown distances; landscapes that seem poetic due to the unreal, where dream and reality find each other and connect.
Coming back to the oeuvre we discover even more, we try to explain it; otherwise we do not go, bewildered, because something new, something indescribable has taken possession of us, thanks to the artist.
His powerful use of color opens up limitless endings, especially when it unites with space. Frits Vogel allows us to participate in his personal artistic approach and experience and we find ourselves at heart here. It seems that the work would have originated in the deepest depths, in which the secrets of a beauty that is dazzling exist.
Frits Vogel, it is important to meet him, to exchange ideas with him, to talk about his visual activities. It is as if you are listening to an alchemist who connects his colors to life. It is an overwhelming emotion, with feelings that are permeated with sublimity and respect.
Nature elements occur in his painter and sculpture; his works play with air, light, sun and rain, even snow adds his brushstroke to it, just as an iris or rushing water depth underlines.
Shadows deepen the work in a multitude of unprecedented expressions.
The artist has, from the bottom of his imagination, created a new world, which at the beginning of the 21st century, which is completely contemporary, hardly knows any age, because the works of Frits Vogel remain timeless.