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Robert Breer, Sans Titre, 1949-1950
© Robert Breer, courtesy gb agency, Paris
Photo: Colin Davison, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Films by Robert Breer on YouTube:
>>A Man And His
Dog Out For Air (1957)
>>Eyewash (1959)
>>69 (1968)
>>Swiss Army Knife
with Rats and Pigeons (1980)
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We are in charge
of the press relations in France for the Museum Tinguely,
Basel, Switzerland.
The solo exhibition on the American painter,
filmmaker and sculptor Robert Breer is the most comprehensive
retrospective of his work to date. Organized in close collaboration
with the artist, the exhibition will be the first to bring
Breer’s work in all media together for several decades,
revealing him to be as vital today as he was in the 1950s.
A full-length catalogue will be published in German and English
editions to accompany the exhibition, which was mounted in
cooperation with the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in
Gateshead (UK).
Born in Detroit in 1926, Breer is one of the most ground-breaking
andcelebrated animators in history. This will be his most
comprehensive exhibition to date, showing works from1950 to
the present day. The son of an amateur 3D home-movie maker
and chief engineer at the Chrysler Corporation, Breer initially
studied engineering at Stanford, before switching to painting.
Early enthusiasms were a 1935 BMW open cockpit racing car
and stunt flying lessons in a bi-plane. His first real passion,
however, was the reductive purity of Piet Mondrian’s
grid-based abstract paintings. ide an historical backdrop.
Press
release:
http://tinyurl.com/mkrpxv
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