An edition of Ugly (2001)
Olaf Breuning
Ugly
By Olaf Breuning,Dorothea Strauss,Christopher Doswald,Gianni Jetzer,Markus Stegmann,Phillippe Vergne
Publish Date
February 2, 2002
Publisher
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
162
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.