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Olaf Breuning: Paintings

Olaf Breuning: Paintings

Breuning, Olaf
Jetzer, Gianni
Beisiegel, Katharina

Hardcover

Individual Artists

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ISBN10: 3969121019
ISBN13: 9783969121016
Publisher: DCV
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 76
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.47 Width: 9.76 Depth: 13.54
Language: English
The multimedia artist Olaf Breuning (b. Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1970; lives and works in Upstate New York) has built a multifaceted oeuvre in installation art, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and performance that questions contemporary reality. In a recent series of paintings, he playfully grapples with pressing concerns such as global warming. Like his earlier work, the new ensemble manifests his unorthodox approach. Breuning devised a unique painterly technique involving large-format wooden stamps with which he presses paint onto the canvas. The result is unconventional and fresh. The publication-- the first book dedicated exclusively to Breuning's paintings-- presents two dozen pictures as well documentation of the production process in the form of wooden stamps and sculptures. A dialogue between Katharina Beisiegel, director of the Kirchner Museum, Davos, and Gianni Jetzer, designated director of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, delves into parallels and differences between the oeuvres of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Olaf Breuning. Breuning trained as a photographer in Winterthur from 1988 until 1993 and completed a master class in photography from 1992 until 1995. In 1995- 199

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