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Pablo

2011

Breuning Olaf

Photography

190 x 87,6 cm

C-Print, Diasec

In his series entitled The Art Freaks, the artist reconstructs figures in the manner of keynote artists – in this case Pablo Picasso – who have profoundly changed our way of seeing the world.
Each model is a living canvas used to recreate a figure, as if created by the master artist. This gives the illusion of rebirth under the brushstrokes of their creator. This revivification on Olaf Breuning’s "stage" flaunts the emblematic forces of creation at work in everything we see through the prism of art, starting with the human body.

Breuning Olaf

Swiss

Born in 1970

Born in Schaffhouse, Switzerland
Lives and works in New York, United States and in Zurich, Switzerland.

Olaf Breuning, a Swiss artist based in New York, explores the subtle limits of the notion of “good taste” through films, setups, drawings and photographs. He finds his visual references in the productions of popular mass culture: comics, pictures of advertisements, 1960’s B-series movies.
Olaf Breuning happily mixes these aesthetic codes to send a direct and emotional message to the spectator, much in the way a publicity spot would.
At first glance, Olaf Breuning’s work imbued with self-mockery appears straightforward. Yet under closer inspection, his world proves more complex. His work is composed of multidimensional pieces that reflect the hypocrisy of Western society, while maintaining this self-mockery for the artist does not deny that he himself is part of this very society.