BOLDTYPE ISSUE #36: Artwork By

The cover of this issue of Boldtype is a detail of "Vikings," a 2001 photographic diptych by Olaf Breuning. It appears in Home, a monograph of the artist's work from a double exhibition in France at the Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble and the Musee d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg in 2004. Published by JRP/Ringier and distributed in the US by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., the paperback book features 100 color reproductions of photographs, installations, and film stills as well as essays by Inge Lindner-Gaillard and Brian Kerstetter.

Olaf Breuning works in photography, film, and installation, usually setting up elaborate artificial scenes for costumed actors and plastic props. His humorous, absurdist works incorporate motifs from horror films, mass-market advertising, tribal rites, military training camps, and vaudeville stage acts.

Born in Switzerland in 1970, Breuning lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited internationally since the late-'90s and is represented by Metro Pictures in New York, Air de Paris in Paris, Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna, and Galerie Nicola von Senger in Zurich.

Olaf Breuning
"Vikings" (detail), 2001
from Home
Two C-Prints on aluminium
Courtesy Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
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