Rober Breer
The shifting universe of Robert Breer traversed several major French and American avant-garde movements. Working as an abstract painter in the 1950s—influenced by Vasarely, Tinguely, and Soto—Breer quickly turned to making animated films then, in the mid-1960s, began inventing moving objects, as though to assert his desire to take painting out of the frame and avoid all static images.
In 1970, for the American pavilion at the World’s Fair in Osaka, Breer created seven mobile sculptures—Floats (floating sculptures)— whose constant, random ballet both desacralized the artwork and the exhibition space.
