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// Random Thoughts About Life 1 by Olaf Breuning, a 2018 lithograph, features a series of humorous and surreal line drawings exploring themes of desire, individuality, and societal expectations. The illustrations include a person with a long list of “NICE” qualities—such as “NICE HOUSE” and “NICE FINANCES”—which humorously critiques materialistic aspirations. Other scenes depict abstract figures, a statue holding a large structure, a tongue-out face, and a figure in a frame, each interacting with the world in peculiar ways. Breuning’s simplistic line style and absurd scenes invite viewers to reflect on the quirky contradictions of life, touching on themes of conformity, personality, and self-image with a playful twist.

Olaf Breuning (Switzerland, 1970) is a contemporary artist celebrated for his playful and eclectic works in photography, sculpture, and video. His art explores themes of popular culture and human behavior, blending humor with social critique. Breuning’s visually striking pieces often mix high and low cultural elements to challenge perceptions.

Olaf Breuning

Random thoughts about life 1, 2018

Name: Random thoughts about life 1, 2018
SKU: 7755
Price: 800.00 EUR
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Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

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Lithograph

Lithograph Lithography is a printing method based on the principle that water and oil do not mix. It can be used to print artwork or text onto paper or other suitable materials. Traditionally, an image was drawn with wax, fat, or oil onto a lithographic limestone surface or plate. Today, metal plates and other surfaces are also used in lithographic printing.

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Edition of 16

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For me, art is a sensitive place where really murky things can be discussed.
- Olaf Breuning

The contemporary artworks of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning throw audiences into a colorful world of surrealist sarcasm. He works through the mediums of performance, film, sculpture and drawing. His eclectic works often feature as a means to breathe life into the dull. His 2014 installation in Central Park, Clouds, does just this. The bright blue aluminium clouds, 35 feet above the ground added a splash of color to the park, brightening both days and lives. Breuning’s work derives inspiration from pop culture, taking the lightness and humor often found in culturally iconic films and TV to juxtapose more significant and deep rooted issues and questions. For example, in the 2011 series of color photographs, The Art Freaks, Browning paints the bodies of nude models in styles symbolic of influential 20th century artists such as Francis Bacon and On Kawara. This questioning of supposed masterpieces and our controlled experience of them is a theme Breuning frequently touches on, raising questions toward our relationship with art, pop culture and the internet.

Artwork by Rene Magritte

What is Surrealism?

Surrealism began in the 1920s as an art and literary movement with the goal of revealing the unconscious mind and unleashing the imagination by exploring unusual and dream-like imagery. Influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis, Surrealist artists and writers sought to bring the unconscious into rational life, blurring the lines between reality and dreams. The movement aimed to challenge conventional perceptions and express the irrational aspects of the human experience.

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Olaf Breuning

Random thoughts about life 1, 2018

28 x 43 cm

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