South likes: Lutz Bacher at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

South likes: Lutz Bacher at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Snow
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
22 November, 2013 – 2 February, 2014

Since the beginning of her career as an artist, Lutz Bacher has been questioning the commercialisation and medialisation of individual life’s choices as well as models of social and sexual identity. She has concealed her true identity behind a male pseudonym and rarely appears in person on the art scene. Snow is the title of her retrospective presented at Kunsthalle Zürich, with works by the American artist characterized by the use popular sources and references—including pornographic magazines, pulp fiction, gossip columns, self-help guides and paparazzi photos. The exhibition incorporates an overview of the artist’s work from the 1970s to the present, integrated into an installation specially created for the show.
Visitors have the opportunity to see works like The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview (1976), a collage of photocopied pictures of John F. Kennedy’s putative assassin accompanied by a fictional interview; the Jokes Series (1987-1988), a set of black and white press photos of celebrities, each with a nasty one-liner; Jackie & Me (1989), made of snapshots of Jacqueline Kennedy with captions written by the paparazzo Ron Gallela; Sex With Strangers (1986), consisting of enlarged photocopies of explicit images of sexual acts; Playboy (1991-1994), a group of drawings and paintings of pin-ups combined with suggestive statements; Little People (2005), a series of photographs depicting toy plastic trolls.
In the exhibition also found objects and sculptures are showcased, such as Big Glass (2008) showing a broken mirror and referring to Duchamp’s The Large Glass; Arm (2009), a life-sized cast of a left arm; Bison (2012), an incomplete wild bovid made of theatre props. 

Eleanna Papathanasiadi

http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch/press_pdf/Bacher_Pressrelease.pdf

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

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Lutz Bacher, Baby Mirror, 2012, Framed pigment print, 112 x 165 cm, Courtesy the artist // Galerie Buchholz, Köln / Berlin // Greene Naftali, New York

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

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Installation view Lutz Bacher «SNOW», Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013 © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich

 

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