Lars Breuer - The Love of the Gods : DCV : 9783969120934 : 3969120934 : 01 Nov 2022 : The art of Lars Breuer (b. Aachen, 1974; lives and works in Dü sseldorf and Cologne) is set apart by its broad spectrum of systems of reference. In his large-format installations, text-based works in his own typography draw connections to literature and art history. They are complemented by figurative and abstract paintings and photographs. In The Love of the Gods, Breuer presents 104 C-prints of photographs for which he pointed the camera' s lens into the barrels of disused rifles, pistoles, revolvers, and cannons. The pictures were taken on the artist' s travels to Athens, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Leverkusen, Ingolstadt, Melbourne, New York, Oslo, and Phnom Penh, in museums, palaces, and public squares. Breuer' s conceptual and meticulously sober-minded approach yields almost abstract compositions showing nothing but the round muzzles and t