Olaf Breuning
OLAF BREUNING
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CLOUDS C E N T R A L PA R K NEW YORK, 2014
Public Art Fund commissions a playful new sculpture by Olaf Breuning entitled “Clouds” to be installed at the southeast entrance to Central Park this spring. The artist’s largest public art installation in the United States to date, the work will feature six clouds rendered as childlike drawings made of polished blue aluminum towering nearly 35 feet above the plaza and mounted on seemingly makeshift steel supports. Blending reality with fiction and refined forms with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, this new work will be a whimsical addition to the Midtown Manhattan skyline. Olaf Breuning: Clouds is on view March 4 through August 24, 2014 in Doris C Freedman Plaza, Central Park.
Rendering for Clouds, 2014 Courtesy of Public Art Fund, New York
THE HUMANS C I T Y H A L L PA R K , N E W YO R K 2013
Carved in marble with bronze details, the six whimsical characters in Breuning’s “The Humans” are part animal, part fairy-tale figurine and bring a playful attitude to the tradition of figurative sculpture. With their comically expressive faces and rounded bodies, these endearing creatures parody the cycle of human evolution from fish to fisher king, here installed in an endless loop.
THE GUARDIANS LIBERTY VILLAGE, TORONTO 2013
The Guardians is a series of five abstract sculptures ranging from 20 to under 10 feet. The pieces are made with aluminum bodies and stainless steel plated bronze spheres on the larger two pieces. The spheres are the heads of sentinels protecting the land with eyes to take in those who are being protected.
A RT I N T H E PA R K V I B AU R AU L AC PA R K ZURICH, 2011
THE COUPLE ST. PA U L’ S PA R K BRISTOL, ENGLAND, 2010
Breuning visited St Paul’s Park in 2009. Wishing to be respectful to the park with its history as a deconsecrated cemetery, whilst also bringing his own humorous take on contemporary art, Breuning had produced two marble sculptures. For the sculptures, The Couple, which loosely resembles two figures in conversation, Breuning invited suggestions from St Paul’s resi dents for words and phrases that were to be carved and etched into the front of the sculptures. Following a casual remark ‘It had better be good’, Breuning used this for the first sculpture, with the second sculpture ‘responding’ One Day It Will, One Day It Will.’
Sandsculpture, 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach
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