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ArtCycle is excited to be partnering with the Fashion in Film Festival (FFF) to raise vital support for the London/New York biennial that showcases fashion, film and art. We have asked a number of our favortie artists to donate quality works to the cause, with a significant portion of the proceeds going to FFF.

Due to its unconventional approach to curating film, FFF has been dubbed “the most fashionable film festival” by Women’s Wear Daily, and called “supremely dazzling and unique” by the US’s National Film Preservation Board. Since its premiere in London in May 2006, FFF's portfolio now boasts leading venues in New York and the UK, including the Museum of the Moving Image , Tate Modern, and the re-vamped BFI Southbank. www.fashioninfilm.com

Olaf Breuning

Rainer Ganahl

Scarlett Hooft Graafland

Lisa Kereszi

Kristen Schiele

Olaf Breuning
Finish Funny, 2008
Graphite on Paper
8.5 x 11 inches
$2,000

Olaf Breuning:
Olaf Breuning (Swiss, b. 1970) is one of the most most prolific contemporary artists. Utilizing a variety of media, such as photography, installation, drawing, sculpture, film and video, Breuning has constructed an aesthetic vernacular that draws much of its inspiration from popular culture, while playfully walking the line between the authentic and the hyperbolic. Breuning's work is collected worlwide by major institutions. Most recently his work has been shown at Metro Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Hayward Gallery in London.

About the Work:
Finish Funny is a classic example of Breuning's graphite work, and noire humor. A car flies through a road barrier and off a cliff while the passengers inside throw their arms up in the air. Though far from "funny", the simple outline drawing "re-mixes" innocent childhood stick figures with twisted adult fantasies that are literally "over the edge."