VISITOR I
conceived in 2010
cast bronze with brown/black patina edition of 3 + 2 Artist’s Proof (1 bronze and 1 bronze resin) dimensions: 250 x 310 x 210 cm (8’ 2” x 10’ 2” x 6’ 10”)
Exhibited:
Sotheby’s Beyond Limits at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 2010
Hampstead Heath, Golders Hill, London, 2012
Permanent installation at Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Armenia
David Breuer-Weil at Christie’s, A Private Sales Exhibition, an exhibition of monumental sculpture across London, June - July 2017
Cavendish Square, London, 2017 - 2021
Mayfair Sculpture Trail & Mayfair Art Weekend (with E & R Cyzer), Berkeley Square, London, June - July 2022
David Breuer-Weil: Sculptures in The Secret Garden, Kemp Town, Brighton, 2023
Visitor I installed at Hampstead Heath, Golders Hill, London, 2012
Visitor I installed in Cavendish Square, London, 2017 - 2021
Visitor I exhibited at Sotheby’s Beyond Limits, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 2010
Visitor I exhibited at David Breuer Weil: Sculptures in The Secret Garden, Brighton, 2023
Visitor I, permanant installation, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Armenia
“With this sculpture I wanted to express the miracle of what it means to be human and mortal, to be a visitor on Earth. And one way to do that was through the shock of scale. In addition, by slightly submerging the image I wanted to suggest our connection with the Earth. When installed in water I wanted to give the impression of a figure with far greater potential than what you actually see, and I believe the reflections accentuate that effect. This work is a visual embodiment of thought. Every human being is largely hidden and secret.”
Visitor I installed in Berkeley Square, London, 2022David Breuer-Weil (British, b. 1965)
David Breuer-Weil was born in London in 1965 and studied at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art under Henry Moore’s assistant Shelley Fausset and at Clare College, Cambridge. Breuer-Weil is famed for his monumental solo shows of vast painted canvases referred to as ‘The Projects’ . The Project was held in 2001 at the Roundhouse, Camden; Project 2 was held at the Bargehouse, OXO Tower in 2003; Project 3 was then held in conjunction with the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in 2007 and at the beginning of 2013 Project 4 was staged in The Vaults, Waterloo. Alongside The Projects, Breuer-Weil continues to produce paintings, sculpture and smaller scale works on paper.
Breuer-Weil has emerged as one of the leading contemporary British sculptors with iconic works such as Brothers and Alien displayed to great public and critical acclaim. These powerful works have been installed in major public spaces in London including Hampstead Heath, Hanover Square, Grosvenor Gardens, Marble Arch and around the world. Visitor I, Visitor II and Alien were included in Sotheby’s 2010, 2011 and 2013 Beyond Limits exhibitions at Chatsworth House. His sculptures and two-dimensional works have been exhibited with the National Trust more recently. In 20162017 Breuer-Weil exhibited alongside Edmund de Waal and Hans Coper at the Jewish Museum, London. In June-July 2017 Christie’s held a solo show of monumental Breuer-Weil sculpture that was held at various locations across London; Cavendish Square, St Pancras, Portman Square and the Economist Plaza. In the summer of 2018 a new monumental work, Flight , was installed into Marble Arch and in 2019 Breuer-Weil’s Visitor II was exhibited as part of The Child Within Me, at the Abdülmecid Efendi Pavilion, Pavilion, Istanbul, to coincide with the Istanbul Biennial. Visitor V and Visitor I were installed in Berkeley Square, London in 2022. In 2023, Breuer-Weil’s sculptures Sister was installed in Hanover Square, London and Reflection was permanently installed at Dean Street, Tottenham Court Road West, London
A film about the artist, The King of Nerac, directed by Annie Sulzberger, was premiered in 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London and in New York at the Lincoln Center. Variety describes the film as delivering “a remarkably detailed study of one man’s artistic process ... his huge statues and canvases invites bigscreen play”. Skira published the monograph David Breuer-Weil: Radical Visionary in 2011 and in 2020 Gli Ori (Italy) published David Breuer-Weil Golden Drawings. Breuer-Weil lives and works in London.
www.davidbreuerweil.com
Selected exhibitions, works in Collections, Public Spaces and Film
Reflection (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Tottenham Court Road West, London, 2023, Permanent Installation
David Breuer Weil: Sculptures in The Secret Garden Solo Exhibition, The Secret Garden, Kemp Town, Brighton, 2023
Sister (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Hanover Square, London, with E & R Cyzer, 2023
Visitor V and Visitor I (David Breuer-Weil), Berkeley Square, London, with E & R Cyzer for Mayfair Art Weekend and the Mayfair Sculpture Trail, 2022
Flight (David Breuer-Weil) Monumental sculpture, St Pancras New Church, London, November 2021 - May 2024
Alien II (David Breuer-Weil) New Bond Street, London, with E & R Cyzer for Mayfair Art Weekend and the Mayfair Sculpture Trail, 2021
The Coviad and Selected Golden Drawings, exhibition at The Ben Uri Museum and Gallery, 2021
Emergence II (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, London Docklands, Canary Wharf, 2019, Permanent Installation
Visitor II (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, The Child Within Me (exhibition), Abdülmecid Efendi Pavilion, Istanbul (to coincide with the Istanbul Biennial), September - November 2019
Laocoön (Philosopher), Laocoon Gallery, London, an exhibition of new works, September - October 2019
David Breuer-Weil at Christie’s: Flight (Monumental sculpture) at Marble Arch, London, June 2018 - November 2019
Stoic (David Breuer-Weil), sculpture, installed at 37 Conduit Street, London, 2019 - 2020
Airborne, an exhibition of new works, E & R Cyzer Gallery, London October - November 2018
Alien and Brothers (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculptures, St Pancras New Church, London, 2017 - 2019
Brothers and Brothers II (David Breuer-Weil), installed at Portman Square, London, 2017 - current
Visitor I (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, installed at Cavendish Square, London, 2017 - 2021
David Breuer-Weil at Christie’s: an exhibition of Monumental sculptures across London, June - July 2017
Animal Farm, Beastly Muses and Metaphors, Exhibition, Sotheby’s S|2, London, 2016
Out of Chaos Laing Art Gallery, Exhibition, Newcastle, UK, 2016 - 2017
Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal, Exhibition, The Jewish Museum, London, 2016 - 2017
Soul (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Children’s Wing of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, 2016, Permanent Installation
Brothers (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, installed at Marble Arch, London, 2016
Alien (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, installed at Mottisfont (National Trust House), Hampshire, UK, September 2015 - November 2016
Emergence (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, installed in Portman Square, London, 2013 - 2017
Alien (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, installed in Grosvenor Gardens, London, 2013 - 2015
Centenary Exhibition: Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London, Exhibition, Somerset House, London, 2015
Screening of the Breuer-Weil film: The King of Nerac (dir. Annie Sulzberger) at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK, January 2015
David Breuer-Weil with Emergence installed in Hanover Square, London, 2012
David Breuer-Weil with Sister installed in Hanover Square, London, 2023
Selected exhibitions, works in Collections, Public Spaces and Film (continued)
Screening of the Breuer-Weil film: The King of Nerac (dir. Annie Sulzberger) at Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) in association with The New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), New York City, USA, January 2015
Alien (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, 2014, Museo Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal, Permanent Collection
Alien (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental Sculpture, Sotheby’s: Beyond Limits at Chatsworth, 2013
Jerusalem, Centre of the World (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Teddy Kollek Park, Jerusalem, 2013, Permanent Installation
David Breuer-Weil: Project 4 Solo Exhibition, The Vaults, Waterloo, London, 2013
Emergence (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Hanover Square, London, 2012,
Visitor I (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Golders Hill Park Lily Pond, Hampstead Heath, London, 2012
Visitor I (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental sculpture, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Armenia, 2011, Permanent Collection
Visitor I (David Breuer-Weil), Monumental Sculpture, Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, UK, 2010 & 2011
David Breuer-Weil: Project 3, Solo Exhibition, The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, The London Jewish Museum of Art, Covent Garden, London, 2007
Closing the Door? Immigrants to Britain 1905-2005, Exhibition, The Jewish Museum, London, 2005
Select Bibliography
David Breuer-Weil Golden Drawings and The Coviad, Exhibition catalogue, The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2021
David Breuer-Weil Golden Drawings Book published by Gli Ori, Italy (ed. Paola Gribaudo), 2020
David Breuer-Weil: an exhibition of monumental sculptures, Exhibition catalogue, Christie’s, London, 2017
Animal Farm, Beastly Muses and Metaphors, Exhibition catalogue, Sotheby’s S|2, London, 2016
Q & A with David Breuer-Weil, Article, The Economist, 2016
David Breuer-Weil: Soul, Shaare Zedek, Catalogue, Jerusalem (ed. C. Craig, J. Bernstein), 2016
Highlights from the Ben Uri Collection, Catalogue, The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, 2015
Out of Chaos, Ben Uri: 100 Years in London, Exhibition catalogue, The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, 2015
Review of The King of Nerac, Article, Variety, London, 2015
Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Exhibition catalogue, Sotheby’s, 2013
David Breuer-Weil: Jerusalem Centre of the World, Catalogue commissioned by the Jerusalem Foundation (ed. C. Craig), 2013
David Breuer-Weil: Project 4 Exhibition catalogue (sponsored by Artnet), London, 2013
David Breuer-Weil, Radical Visionary, A monograph on David Breuer-Weil, Book published by Skira, Milan, 2011
Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Exhibition catalogue, Sotheby’s, 2010 & 2011
David Breuer-Weil: Project 3, Exhibition catalogue, The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (supported by European Association for Jewish Culture, Seven Dials WC2, NCP and Brado Group), 2007
