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Robert Breer, Order From Chaos That Includes Chaos

Solo Exhibition
gb agency
from March 9 to May 4, 2019


gb agency is delighted to present Order From Chaos That Includes Chaos, the sixth Robert Breer solo exhibition at the gallery, dedicated to the artist’s own implicit vision of goodwill in a society of free and contrary individuals.

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variation, 1970

Motorized sculpture

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Variations, 1970

Motorized sculptures

Plastic, paint, motor and wheels
Diameter 9,5 cm each
Each piece is unique

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Fist Fight, 1964

16 mm trasnferred onto video, color, sound
Duration 8 minutes 45 seconds

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Photo Aurélien Mole

Robert Breer
Partial view of show, 2019

Untitled, 1952

Oil on canvas, framed
100 x 81 cm, framed 106 x 87 x 3,8 cm Unique
Signed and dated at the back

Photo Aurélien Mole

The title of the exhibition is from the text Alphabeta in which Breer (1926-2011) examines his place in the world, his fragmentary sense of reality, and his relationships to others. For Breer, “Life keeps going but sideways, not necessarily ahead… It’s a disillusion to think you are getting anywhere.”

Breer’s entire oeuvre takes others into account, calls on every element of our conscious and unconscious, and tests the limits of our perception. Order From Chaos That Includes Chaos underscores this social aspect of the work, as much when it focuses on the individual and the personal as when it is projected onto the broader society.

An artist of movement, disruption, and noncompliance, Robert Breer still endures today. A humanist, Breer believed that if we acknowledge the other, we can maintain harmony. His gaze, at times vigilant, malicious and kind, continues to be with us in an era when fear of the other is inflamed.