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WIELS presents the first posthumous survey exhibition of artist Lutz Bacher. Burning the Days offers an expansive view of Lutz Bacher’s five decades in art.
Lutz Bacher (1943–2019) lived in Berkeley, California and New York City. She began making art in the 1970s under this assumed name. Her earliest artworks were still made with a camera. She took her own pictures, as well as transformed found photographs, drawing resonance out of them by distorting them, editing and combining them, or uncovering half-hidden details about them.
Her approach often depended on chance or discovering the accidental, an openness that later grew to include sculpture, video and eventually museum-sized installations. She believed that artists can confront art and life through what is already made, permitting it to show her many sudden intrusions of beauty, comedy or violence. This approach to art embraced the art-historical tradition of the ‘readymade’, while also muddying its logic, using a wide range of…
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WIELS presents the first posthumous survey exhibition of artist Lutz Bacher. Burning the Days offers an expansive view of Lutz Bacher’s five decades in art.
Lutz Bacher (1943–2019) lived in Berkeley, California and New York City. She began making art in the 1970s under this assumed name. Her earliest artworks were still made with a camera. She took her own pictures, as well as transformed found photographs, drawing resonance out of them by distorting them, editing and combining them, or uncovering half-hidden details about them.
Her approach often depended on chance or discovering the accidental, an openness that later grew to include sculpture, video and eventually museum-sized installations. She believed that artists can confront art and life through what is already made, permitting it to show her many sudden intrusions of beauty, comedy or violence. This approach to art embraced the art-historical tradition of the ‘readymade’, while also muddying its logic, using a wide range of…
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