Olaf Breuning was born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and lives and works in New York. He has made shows in Kodama Gallery in Japan, Nils Staerk Contemporary in Denmark and Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, among many others. His success of critic remains on his ability to mix, under a curious sight, high and low culture. He revives artistic topics as fear to death or cultural differences, and connect them to the youth sub-cultures, rock and scary movies. His photographs and films, crowded of vikings, ghosts, monsters and dressed up beings, show characters with psychological modern obsessions, with a half-caste aesthetics, not withouth irony and some sense of humour. Primitivism, lost culture, and rebuild of concept of violence are some of his artistic worries.
Après l'Insensé Japan, Pays-Bas, Espagne, États-Unis, Berlin et British, voici le tour de la Suisse d'être encensée par L'Insensé. Comme à son habitude, le magazine est de toute beauté, et à un prix raisonnable et abordable : 20 euros.
« La Suisse s'affiche comme un pays « neutre ». Cela ne signifie pas pour autant que ce petit pays situé au milieu de l'Europe se soit retiré du monde pour cultiver son « ailleurs ». Depuis toujours ses habitants ont ressenti une ardente obligation de curiosité vers le monde extérieur, à travers les livres, les films, la finance... et la photographie ! ».
L'Insensé Suisse met l&...
CONTACT is an annual month long festival of photography with over 1000 local, national and international artists at more than 200 venues across the Greater Toronto Area in May. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 14 years ago, CONTACT is devoted to celebrating, and fostering an appreciation of the art and profession of photography. As the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Toronto, CONTACT stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse audience that has grown to over 1.5 million and is focused on cultivating even greater interest and participation this year.
Based on the curatorial theme Pervasive Influence, recent works by Canadian and international artists are showcased at Toronto's leading cultural institutions, contemporary art spaces and public sites. As the bo...
TorbjØrn RØdland was born in Stavenger, Norway in 1970. He has made several exhibitions in Tokio, New York, Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris and San Francisco, among others. He is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music: a master of the delicately orchestrated clichée overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too inane, played to the point where the images are drained of all trace of common sense and suggest a new sense of silence or mystery. He creates a complex of readings that inveigles the viewer into spending time with each single image, to reconsider its meaning and relevance, reinventing the romantic impulses of popular culture....