Olaf Breuning / Torbjorn Rodland
dal 23/11/2006 al 29/12/2006
Segnalato da
23/11/2006
Olaf Breuning / Torbjorn Rodland
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Breuning 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. Rodland's works are images drained of all trace of common sense and suggesting a new sense of silence or mystery.
Photography
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.
Torbjorn Rodland 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 cliche'e 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.
Image: Olaf Breuning
Opening: November 24 2006
Galeri'a Leyendecker
Rambla General Franco, 86 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm + 5pm-8pm