New York Times: Olaf Breuning

One of our artists, Olaf Breuning (b. 1970, Switzerland), made it onto the front page of the New York Times Arts section this past Saturday September 28th, with his work Smoke Bombs (2011). See the article here.

Part Indian festival of colour Holi, part building-on-fire, part Olaf being Olaf. With all the components for an aggravating event (smoke-induced confusion), the color, the playfulness, the purity... it becomes almost a welcome deviation. Mixed feelings be as they may, really this is better seen than described:


STS - SANTA FE - Olaf Breuning's Smoke Performance from Station to Station on Vimeo.


And remember, this comes from an artist who asked people to be a Camelops Femina (extinct camel species)... resulting in the following:

Olaf Breuning Camelops Brian 2013 (part of a series)

More Olaf!

Top 500

Carbon 12 Dubai may have been around for 5 years (this November!) but it is still making waves not only in the UAE contemporary art scene. 

Modern Painters magazine published its annual "Top 500 Galleries Worldwide" and guess who is in it. Check out the article: Modern Painters

Carbon 12 represents a slew of international institution-grade artists, many of whom work large, and readers won't be disappointed by Gil Heitor Cortesao's triptych, representing Carbon 12 this year in Modern Painters.  Cortesao (b. 1967) is a Portugese painter who paints big, heavy, and light all at once (light because he paints on plexiglass framed by actual window frames) to create realistic but barren architectural spaces. A little 70's, a little futuristic, it is sort of like waking up to find that you are the only person left. At least you're in a cool space though. 

Gil Heitor Cortesao Large Interior 2012

You also might notice that Cortesao's work has the similar "house-after-the-party's-over" feeling as influential 70's photographer Jeff Wall's work below (exhibited as a lightbox, creating the same eerily luminiscent effect as Cortesao).

Jeff Wall Morning Cleaning 1999

Just saying.

Want more Gil? Gil Heitor Cortesao  

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