| . | Olaf Breuning, Group, 2001, 9'58" |
| . | A group of four young and sexy Neanderthals is washed up from the sea onto a beach. They sit down around a fire and let its light and heat flicker over them. Then they get into a boring campervan and wind each other up until they are fighting–a mixture of ritual, play and eroticism–before rushing back to the sea like a group of tourists gone crazy. They come from nowhere, just as comets, waves or neuroses come over us, only to vanish again and to leave a feeling of confusion behind them. The four wild boys are the product of cliches, contemporary aesthetics and pop culture; in their genes hard rock meets campfire romanticism, gothic meets hippiedom, pubescent outbreaks meet calculated poses, home-video eroticism meets Hollywood glamour, the B series meets the advertising clip, self-satisfaction meets sunset, machismo meets identity fantasies. True confusion dwells in the spirit of the times. |
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Olaf Breuning (b. 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland) lives and works in New York. Courtesy Metro Pictures, New York, and Nicola von Senger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland |