The art of Lars Breuer (b. Aachen, 1974; lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf and Cologne) is set apart by its broad spectrum of systems of reference. In his large-format installations, text-based works in his own typography draw connections to literature and art history. They are complemented by figurative and abstract paintings and photographs.<\/p>\n
In The Love of the Gods<\/em>, Breuer presents 104 C-prints of photographs for which he pointed the camera\u2019s lens into the barrels of disused rifles, pistoles, revolvers, and cannons. The pictures were taken on the artist\u2019s travels to Athens, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Leverkusen, Ingolstadt, Melbourne, New York, Oslo, and Phnom Penh, in museums, palaces, and public squares. Breuer\u2019s conceptual and meticulously sober-minded approach yields almost abstract compositions showing nothing but the round muzzles and the dark interiors of the weapons on a deep-black ground. We see only a ring-shaped ornament until it dawns on us that it is part of a lethal implement. A cruel constant of human existence stares us in the face: humans behind these weapons were perpetrators, humans in front of these weapons were victims. Lars Breuer\u2019s turn the spotlight on what the aura of the ornaments conceals: they have wrought death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The art of Lars Breuer (b. Aachen, 1974; lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf and Cologne) is set apart by its broad spectrum of systems of reference. In his large-format installations, text-based works in his own typography draw connections to literature and art history. They are complemented by figurative and abstract paintings and photographs.<\/p>\n In The Love of the Gods<\/em>, Breuer presents 104 C-prints of photographs for which he pointed the camera\u2019s lens into the barrels of disused rifles, pistoles, revolvers, and cannons. The pictures were taken on the artist\u2019s travels to Athens, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Leverkusen, Ingolstadt, Melbourne, New York, Oslo, and Phnom Penh, in museums, palaces, and public squares. Breuer\u2019s conceptual and meticulously sober-minded approach yields almost abstract compositions showing nothing but the round muzzles and the dark interiors of the weapons on a deep-black ground. We see only a ring-shaped ornament until it dawns on us that it is part of a lethal implement. A cruel constant of human existence stares us in the face: humans behind these weapons were perpetrators, humans in front of these weapons were victims. Lars Breuer\u2019s turn the spotlight on what the aura of the ornaments conceals: they have wrought death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18574,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2212,2211],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18569","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-installation-art","8":"product_cat-photography","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n