The Art Newspaper

Have a beer with Breuning

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 03 December 2009

Last year, artist Olaf Breuning was commissioned by Art Basel Miami Beach to create a massive, Picasso-inspired sand sculpture on the beach. The Swiss-born, New York-based artist returns to Florida next month with a much more liquid project, having been chosen by the New Art Dealers Alliance and Dutch brewers Grolsch to design the labels for a limited-edition swing-top bottle that will be distributed at the NADA art fair preview tomorrow. Breuning’s work, chosen by a panel of curators, parodies the Evolution of Man from a stick-wielding Neanderthal to a blissful, beer-toting imbiber. “Humans have always invented the right tools to reach the next level of evolution, the invention of fire, wheel, weapons and books…It might now be time to enter the ‘Grolsch Age’,” says the artist. Cheers to that.