“It seems to me that Fred Kleinberg's painting is a painting of truth, because it is true on three levels: in relation to itself, in relation to the artist, and in relation to its content.

A painting by Fred Kleinberg answers in advance all the “whys”, on the understanding that the answer cannot belong to the order of understanding: it plunges us into the sensitive that it plunges us and it is to an acquiescence of the body that it invites.
The form is sure and fair: we are all the more sensitive to this truth of painting that comes from the rigor of the sensitive because we also perceive a truth in relation to the artist.
Indeed, it seems that Fred Kleinberg works under the influence of two needs, one technical and the other almost spiritual. One strongly feels, in front of these large (expressionist,) compositions, that, for the painter, doing and being are one and the same thing.
Finally, Kleinberg's paintings contain a third truth: that of their content. The artist only talks about what concerns him in the world, he has nothing to demonstrate but he has to show what cannot be described. the rage to paint exists!
A rage such as Fred Kleinberg's paintings bring meaning before signs, offer a world before things. Yes, definitely, a painting of truth such as there are few examples today.”

Jean-Luc Chalumeau

Art historian and art critic and author of numerous books on contemporary art.