PORTFOLIO - Frank Breuer, Warehouses and logos
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Cologne-based photographer Frank Breuer is a virtuoso of profuse emptiness. His photographs of the bleak but strangely beautiful warehouses and of the logo-bearing, corporate, pylon-like signs that often stand nearby seem largely emptied of discursive, annotative meaning.
Because both the warehouses and the emptied sign-structures that are his subject offer no internal articulation, they are essentially scale-less, possessing temporality rather than interiority, and having more to do with duration, extension, and proliferation than with architecture or idea. This leads them toward a role as extrapolated minimalist objects: constant, indivisible, and, being spectacle-free (in the Debordian sense), paradoxically neutral, though imbued with the grace of presentness.
Untitled, Venio NL, 1997, Courtesy Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne; Untitled, Tongeren B, 2000; Untitled, Bergen-op-Zoom NL, 2000; colour prints 47 x 101 cm.
© Franck Breuer
Untitled, Köln D, 1996, colour print, 20.8 x 16.4 cm.
© Franck Breuer
Untitled, Pützchen D, 1996; Untitled, Gelsenkirchen D, 1996; Untitled, Schiphol NL, 2002;
colour prints, 20.8 x 16.4 cm.
© Franck Breuer
Untitled, Anterpen B, 57 x 90 cm; Untitled, Liège B, 45 x 58,6 cm; Untitled, Liège B, 57 x 76 cm; colour prints, 2000.
© Franck Breuer
Untitled, Longwy F, 1996, 37.4 x 156.3 cm; Untitled, Lille F, 2000, 47 x 113 cm; Untitled, St.Niklaas B, 2000, 47 x 113 cm; Untitled, Liège B, 1995, 57 x 76 cm; colour prints.
© Franck Breuer
Editors · CV74 · Vendredi, 01 Décembre 2006 00:00
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