Robert Breer

Birthday: 1926-09-30
Deathday: 2011-08-11
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Gender: Male

Born in 1926 in Detroit, Robert Breer has spent fifty years building up a totally atypical body of work which plays with different genres and abolishes the notions of space and time.

Starting off as a painter, he then deconstructed his neoplastic works and ended up with kinetic objects. He dealt next with the thresholds of awareness and perception, both as a sculptor and a film-maker. His films are composed of a jumble images that pass at great speed, while his Floats move almost imperceptibly, in accordance with an unpredictable logic.

Robert Breer developed his light yet rigorous style while associating with the New York underground in the Pop years. Continuing his subtle exploration movement, he still today causes the space of reality-irrevocably unstable-to waver.

Credits

Year Title
2003-10-17 What Goes Up....
2000-01-01 Atoz
1997-01-01 Time Flies
1993-01-01 Sparkill Ave!
1989-01-01 A Frog on the Swing
1986-12-31 Bang!
1982-01-01 Trial Balloons
1980-01-01 Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
1979-01-01 T.Z.
1978-01-01 Lmno
1977-01-01 77
1976-01-01 Rubber Cement
1974-12-31 Fuji
1972-01-01 Gulls and Buoys
1970-10-20 PBL #2
1970-01-01 70
1969-04-10 69
1967-01-30 For Life, Against the War
1966-01-01 66
1964-01-01 Fist Fight
1963-01-01 Breathing
1962-01-01 Pat's Birthday
1962-01-01 Horse Over Tea Kettle
1961-12-31 Blazes
1960-12-31 Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1960-01-01 Inner and Outer Space
1959-01-01 Eyewash
1959-01-01 Cassis Colank
1958-01-01 Par avion
1957-12-31 A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1957-12-31 Jamestown Baloos
1957-01-01 The Movement
1956-12-29 Recreation II
1956-01-01 Recreation
1956-01-01 Motion Pictures No. 1
1956-01-01 Cats
1955-01-01 Image by Images IV
1955-01-01 Image by Images III
1955-01-01 Image by Images II
1954-01-01 A Miracle
1954-01-01 Image by Images
1953-12-31 Form Phases IV
1953-01-01 Form Phases II
1953-01-01 Form Phases III
1952-01-01 Form Phases I