Kunstverein München is pleased to present the first comprehensive solo exhibition of American artist Lutz Bacher in Europe. "Do you love me?" is the last episode of Lutz Bachers` trilogy that further encompasses the exhibitions "Spill", (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis) and "My Secret Life", (PS1/MoMA, New York City).
Working in Berkeley, California since the 70s and during the 80s in close affiliation with Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City, Lutz Bacher, whose real identity remains hidden from the art public, stages herself as a shape shifting character. Constantly constructing fractured and conflicting identities, Bacher creates a body of work that is formed and informed by interference, superposition and dissolution.
This exhibition especially produced for Kunstverein München focuses partly on Bacher`s humorous picking away at the American Dream, respectively its representation and construction within the media; Video works, fanzine-like books or installations - in her exhibition "Do you love me?" mermaids cross the path of alligators, Gozilla bites the "Wizard of Oz" while penetrating "Gap" advertising campaigns. Lutz Bacher contaminates assumed visual worlds with traces of idiosyncrasy and sexual ambiguity, creating fractures that reveal the material as well as the psychological contradictions of a dream cum nightmare constantly driven by the question "Do you love me?"
Lutz Bacher lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Solo exhibitions: 2009, PS1/MOMA (New York); 2008, Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), Taxter & Spengemann (New York); 2006, Ratio 3 (San Francisco); Group exhibitions: 2008, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); 2006 PS 1/MomA (New York).
Working in Berkeley, California since the 70s and during the 80s in close affiliation with Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City, Lutz Bacher, whose real identity remains hidden from the art public, stages herself as a shape shifting character. Constantly constructing fractured and conflicting identities, Bacher creates a body of work that is formed and informed by interference, superposition and dissolution.
This exhibition especially produced for Kunstverein München focuses partly on Bacher`s humorous picking away at the American Dream, respectively its representation and construction within the media; Video works, fanzine-like books or installations - in her exhibition "Do you love me?" mermaids cross the path of alligators, Gozilla bites the "Wizard of Oz" while penetrating "Gap" advertising campaigns. Lutz Bacher contaminates assumed visual worlds with traces of idiosyncrasy and sexual ambiguity, creating fractures that reveal the material as well as the psychological contradictions of a dream cum nightmare constantly driven by the question "Do you love me?"
Lutz Bacher lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Solo exhibitions: 2009, PS1/MOMA (New York); 2008, Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), Taxter & Spengemann (New York); 2006, Ratio 3 (San Francisco); Group exhibitions: 2008, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); 2006 PS 1/MomA (New York).
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