{"id":1854,"date":"2012-08-13T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:16","slug":"art-we-love-roland-breners-swinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/13\/art-we-love-roland-breners-swinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Art we love: Roland Brener’s Swinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Among the many remarkable works in the current summer exhibition at the Olga Korper Gallery is a piece by the late Roland Brener (1942-2006) called Swinger.\u00a0Swinger began in 1999, as a hand-built, laminated plywood figure of a standard-issue businessman in a standard-issue business suit, but grotesquely distorted by a “bloat and pinch”computer program the artist was using–with devastating satirical results. The original wooden Swinger was then made as a multiple (of 3) in tinted polyester resin and first exhibited in 2000.<\/p>\n

As critic Gary Michael Dault wrote in Canadian Art magazine, the figure has been greatly distorted laterally: Dault speaks of its “horrid, flattened face, the sloping, moronic forehead, the atrophied flipper-like arms, the dangling, dwindling legs, the revolting swell of belly, an impossible girth (suit jacket wrapped tight like a sausage casing) devolving into a ghastly insect-like shell at the back….”<\/p>\n

A few days ago, Gary Michael Dault revisited the piece, and talked to gallery owner and director Olga Korper about Roland Brener’s infinitely fresh, endlessly disturbing–and blackly amusing–Swinger.<\/p>\n