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Kim
Levin, The Village Voice, Voice Choice Shortlist, July
2, 2002, p.78
Olaf Breuning Sublety isn't exactly this brash young
artist's forte. And the jagged hole in the wall through which
you enter his trashed library is a bit too close for comfort
to the hole in the wall into fellow Swiss artist Christoph Buchel's
installation at Maccarone a while ago. What Breuning excels
at is glam-trash cliche, willful crudity, pretensions of profundity,
and special effects. Step through another hole in the wall and
you'll be sucked into a vortexing tunnel of blue light that
leads to a hallucinatory red skeleton, a bodacious ax-wielding
sex doll in a deluxe coffin, and mounds of dirt. The vocoder-addled
tune adds to the hollow spectacle of "Hello Darkness".
Through August 3, Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, 925-2035. |
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