Olaf Breuning
Subtitle: Ugly
Contributors: Philippe Vergne (Editor)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Published: February 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9783775711050
Subjects: Individual artists; Assemblage Art; Criticism; Installation; Art / Individual Artist; Individual Artist; Art; Art & Art Instruction
Description: "Films, television, advertising, video clips, and computer games--all are fair game and useful material for Swiss artist Olaf Breuning. In his photographs, videos, and installations, Breuning engages with the reality of the vast array of media that surround us incessantly, day in and day out, appropriating narratives, images, and characters to create unforgettable and eerily familiar hybrids. Through unlikely medleys that juxtapose such disparate elements as the accoutrements of occultism, new-age fads, and vampire films, mixing together disgust, sweetness, kitsch, horror, levity, and gravity, Breuning shows that nothing is too sacred or profane to warrant inclusion in one of his playful, weirdly subtle compositions."--Publisher's description.