OLAF BREUNING, Black and white people pattern, 2017

Name: OLAF BREUNING, Black and white people pattern, 2017
Brand: COLLABORATIONS
Price: 20000.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Description

OLAF BREUNING, Black and white people pattern, 2017
Edition of 50 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Hand knotted
Silk
High / Low Cut

Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, film, photography, sculpture, and drawing. His work is marked by a distinctive combination of humor and disquiet, constructing staged scenarios that appear playful at first encounter yet subtly probe the mechanisms through which images, identities, and cultural myths are produced and consumed. Breuning frequently employs exaggeration, artifice, and theatricality as tools to examine how meaning is mediated in an image-saturated world.

Public projects such as Clouds, his installation in Central Park—composed of bright blue aluminum cloud forms suspended high above the landscape—demonstrate his ability to insert moments of visual estrangement into familiar environments. In photographic series such as The Art Freaks (2011), Breuning painted the bodies of nude models to evoke the stylistic languages of figures including Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, and On Kawara, playfully questioning the authority of canonical artworks and the ways they are encountered through reproduction and cultural memory.

Breuning lives and works between New York and Zürich, maintaining a practice that moves fluidly between studio production and site-responsive installations, often blurring distinctions between sincerity and parody, critique and entertainment.

For HENZEL STUDIO, Breuning created a unique free-form design in which intertwined human silhouettes are rendered through shifts in pile height. The sculptural surface translates his interest in the body, outline, and playful distortion into textile, allowing figuration to emerge through texture and contour rather than line alone.

Selected exhibitions: Metro Pictures, New York; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Centre d‘art Contemporain, Geneva and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Images: (1) Black and white people pattern, 2017 (in-situ) (2) Black and white people pattern, 2017

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