Robert Breer

Robert Breer 1926-2011

images: Breer with floats, 1966 / Breathing, collage of 16 drawings, 1963 / ad detail from Film Culture Magazine No.27, 1962---all from this book.

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Everything goes, not anything!

Float, MOMA sculpture garden, 1970 / Floats, 1965 / (exhibition view) Kinetic and Programmed Art, Rhode Island School of Design Providence, 1966 / Floats, 1967 / Breer at work / Float and Rug, Hammarskjold Plaza, NY, 1973 / (exhibition view) Pepsi-Cola Pavilion, Osaka, Expo 1970 / Floor drawing, 1974 / (exhibition view) Genesis Sculpture: Experience #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims, 2004

"...Thus we are dealing with sculptures that have "fallen off their pedestals", like those of Carl Andre, with the difference that they enjoy propulsive autonomy. They are in effect fitted with a system that makes them move forward and change direction on contact with an obstacle. They move at extremely slow speeds so that their movement is not immediately perceptible..." -Juliette Singer
"...I thought of grass and then these objects "semi-obscurs" that were alive, but my thinking was not anthropomorphic or biomorphic in terms of shapes or in terms on content. I was thinking, Sculpture, strangely enough. This was pretty corrupt as I was coming from centuries of art consciousness to arrive at what amounts to a motorized mollusc..." -Robert Breer

from Robert Breer: Films, Floats & Panoramas, Editions De L'Oeil, 2006 (french & english text)

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Untitled Robert Breer lithograph (1973) . Here now.

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Floats by Robert Breer

from Horizon, Vol. VIII, No. 4, Autumn 1966

"motorized polyhedrans...programmed to switch direction whenever they encounter resistence...The limitless possibilities of position were demonstrated earlier this year when one of the larger "floats" had to be physically restrained from departing the premises of the Galeria Bonino in New York."