ART
interview by EMILIEN CRESPO
photography by PIA RIVEROLA
all artwork copyright pedro friedeberg
for decades, the eccentric 84-year-old artist pedro friedeberg has been blurring the frontier between decorative art, design, and sculpture. he embodies an irreverent postmodern attitude, mixing a renaissance perspective, op art, and mexican motifs. his home in mexico city, full of his paintings, furniture, books, and curiosities, is a work of art in itself
EMILIEN CRESPO — You were born in Italy in 1936. What are some of your earliest memories?
PEDRO FRIEDEBERG — I was born in the landscape of Giorgio de Chirico, in Florence. The clouds would pass very slowly. I thought the churches were moving, but it was the clouds that were passing. That’s all I remember.
EMILIEN CRESPO — That’s your only memory of Italy?
PEDRO FRIEDEBERG — They gave me a parrot.
EMILIEN CRESPO — Was it a talking parrot?
PEDRO…