Saturday 4 May 2013

Lutz Bacher



Ever since her career began in the 1970s, Californian artist Lutz Bacher has drawn upon fragmented information from popular culture and her own life to produce work. Her ability to feed of the popular zeitgeists within western culture is notably seen at her recent show at the Ratio 3 Gallery, in which at first glance appears to be a completely black photograph. Look harder and staring out at you is an enlarged photograph of Edward Cullen, the tween-heartthrob character played by Robert Pattinson in the blockbuster adaptation of the Twilight series.


Bacher’s books, installations, sculptures, videos, photographs, paintings and screenprints, use a varied combination of imagery and objects in a physical, visceral manner, as well as using text to alter context or the views perception of a subject. Bacher does not encourage the viewer to understand the work, by excluding explanations of her pieces and often no titles or information offered online. 


Lutz Bacher feeds of what is around us in our everyday fabric of western culture and symbolism, alterations and twists in context, forces the viewer to ‘join the dots’ when searching for meaning and understanding within the work.










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