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Olaf Breuning: Home
Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's videos revel hilariously in adolescent antics and pop culture. In a recent work, Wayne's World types don masks, eat dog food, and throw m&m's at pets, and in another segment, a gang invades Amish country, strips a passerby, pulls a mask over his head, and chases him into the woods. Like Mike Kelley before him, Breuning seeks not just to erase the line between our media-saturated world of film and television and high art, but to blow it to smithereens. That doesn't mean he isn't thoughtful and thought Inventive composition and technical mastery inform all his pieces, whether videos or large-format photographs. Inspired by Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney's early work, and filmmakers such as John Carpenter and John Waters, Breuning has learned both how to get a laugh (and a scream) and to plumb the deeper human comedy (and horror).
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 15, 2005
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April 15, 2017
What can I say? The cover says it all. Who would travel to Easter Island to make Easter bunnies?
Breuning was born in 1970 and is Swiss. He lives in NY at the moment. Very diverse body of works. A lot of his video work is up on his own Vimeo page. Home 2 runs for 30 minutes, and is fantastic: https://vimeo.com/user11580373
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Breuning was born in 1970 and is Swiss. He lives in NY at the moment. Very diverse body of works. A lot of his video work is up on his own Vimeo page. Home 2 runs for 30 minutes, and is fantastic: https://vimeo.com/user11580373
Click for more art book reviews on Weighing A Pig Doesn't Fatten it.
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