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Golden Drawings and the Coviad
David Breuer-Weil

Golden Drawings and the Coviad: David Breuer-Weil

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  • Human, plant and organic forms emerge from abstract forms

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    One  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Man and woman, like Adam and Eve, dance on a head

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Two  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Nature is beautiful and filled with life, but a Covid-19 form also grows like a flower and comes close to human figures that resemble the artist's son and daughter. In this series of drawings figures have their hair connecting across distances.

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Three  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • The artist is seated on the left, three souls have been born from him, his children. The same souls have been born from the artist's wife. They are biological people but also thoughts, dreams. The artist's wife had the same thoughts and dreams, she is dre

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Four  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Human, plant and organic forms emerge from abstract forms from the artist's open head

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Five  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Infinity symbol filled with human and tree forms

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Six  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • An image of the mother, the nurturer of life, the queen bee generating the future

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Sixteen  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • A womb-like image, a human being transforms from foetus into adult

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Seventeen  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • A landscape with walking pants and flying shirts, ponds and trees in the background

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Eighteen  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • The artist is walking through Hampstead Heath, his face covered with a scarf that flows behind him. There are three faces at the bottom and trees in the background

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Nineteen  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    84.1 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Strands of DNA, strings with people, hands, trees and objects connect at the centre of the artwork

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Twenty Six  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    72 x 85 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Strings with animals, humans and trees are pathways of the future, back and forth to a vanishing point on the horizon

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Thirty Two  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    59.4 x 84.1 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • The artist floating at the centre of the composition wearing his phylacteries

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Thirty Seven  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    59.4 x 84.1 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • A floaty sphere filled with trees, chimneys and people

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Thirty Eight  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    84.1 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • image of the archetypal mother, connected to her children in the most intimate and direct way, through her strands of hair

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Forty Two  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    29.7 x 42cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965) Forty Four 2020 Pencil and gold leaf on paper 59.4 x 84.1 cm © David Breuer-Weil

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Forty Four  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    59.4 x 84.1 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Many clapping hands

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Forty Five  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • A vast field filled with boxes or dwellings, each containing an isolated individual. Each person is engaged in their own activity, working on the computer, reading, watching TV, exercising or hanging around aimlessly

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Forty Six  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    59.4 x 84.1 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Each sphere is a different family or isolated unit of people, floating like planets in a vast golden universe

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Fifty Six  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Two faces, one half hidden with a mask and closed eyes, the other with bandages over the eyes

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Fifty Eight  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    42 x 59.4 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • One man’s knee on the neck of another, whilst others look away

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Sixty Six  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    29.7 x 42 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • This artwork portrays a map of the entire world composed of bubbles. Within each bubble is an individual, group or family

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Ninety Two  2020

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    59.4 x 84.1 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • The artist brings together the ancient story of the Ten Plagues with our current plague, COVID-19, some of the figures are wearing masks as you go through the archetypal plagues of blood, frog, lice, wild animals, death of livestock, boils, hail, locusts,

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Ten Plagues  2021

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm

    overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • The number four has a mystical quality and is at the heart of the idea of Passover, the four questions, fours sons, four cups etc. The artist's fictional Four Sons are very contemporary. One of them is a studious type, another injecting himself with drugs

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Four Sons  2021

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm

    overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965) Slavery 2021 Pencil and gold leaf on paper 4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm © David Breuer-Weil

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Slavery  2021

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm

    overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Story of one being consuming another in an ongoing violent drama. On a simple level it is a goat eaten by a cat, bitten by a dog, hit by a stick, burned by a fire, put out by water, drunk by an ox, slaughtered by a butcher, killed by the Angel of Death, k

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    The Song of the Goat  2021

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm

    overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

  • Twelve separate and different images coming together compositionally into a golden firmament brimming with thoughts and ideas from the animal and human world.

    David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965)

    Zodiac  2021

    Pencil and gold leaf on paper

    4 x sheets, each 59.4 x 84.1 cm

    overall 118.8 x 168.2 cm

    © David Breuer-Weil

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