![]() Neïla Czermak Ichti (1996) recently graduated from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. His work puts the observer at the centre of a complex, ever-changing world. Robert Breer’s ‘Floats’ reveal an unstable present. Fascinated by the idea of animating images he transformed his paintings into flip books and later animated videos, exploring interactions between color, speed, and the appearance and disappearance of shapes. ![]() Born in 1926 in Detroit, Michigan, he died in Tucson, Arizona in 2011. Robert Breer worked in different media including sculpture, painting, drawing and film. ![]() Listeners are encouraged to consider the soft and subtle hums of the motorised sculptures as part of the music. The piece is written for quadraphonic sound, creating a different auditory experience for the listener, depending on where they are within the space. Glacial Hymn, composed by Micaela Tobin and Rhea Fowler (Los Angeles, CA), is inspired by the slow movement of Rober Breer’s ‘Floats,’ in tandem with his often humorous recollections of attending church as a child. And then, they casually drift out of the picture. With great tranquility, they seem to follow random paths, introducing a kinetic energy that proliferates the possible points of view of the very moment. Made of painted styrofoam, neutral in color and shape, the motorized objects move slowly, animated like buoys in the sea. ![]() The ‘Floats’ are like nodes that mark the convergence of multiple trains of thought. Robert Breer’s rug sculpture hovers through the gallery. Removing the rug might open a trap door into the grainy duplicity of what we call common reality. How many hours have you spent watching or playing cartoon characters getting their heads flattened by frying pans and bodies smashed into accordions? Slapstick slyness is the trickster’s weapon of choice, neither villain nor hero but both, one and the other. Pulling the rug out from someone’s feet, metaphorically unsettling someone’s belief and material existence, is a classical slapstick trick. When something is swept under the carpet it may not attract attention and is not mutable. ![]()
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