Frank Breuer
Frank Breuer
German, born 1963
(from http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/breuer.html)
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Biography"Breuer examines landscapes from the Ruhr area to the Netherlands, sometimes going as far as Belgium and northern France. This north European industrial space is no longer characterized by water and winding towers, but has instead become a landscape consisting of logos and trademarks. Production has been replaced by distribution; what used to be the location for heavy industry has become the commercial zone for multinational companies. Production plants are not as visible as they might have been a century ago. Towers displaying logos are only symbolic references to business, serving at the same time as advertising for an expanding consumer world. Anonymous warehouses allude to the presence of businesses, which are no longer gigantic production plants, but instead barricaded behind monotonous metal walls located at the peripheries of urban settlements."
(from http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/breuer.html)