RT4A Lutz

Lutz

2022
Acrylic, toothbrush, Random Disco Flakes, India ink and pencil on linen canvas
46 x 32 x 5 cm
RT4A2205
Private collection
Courtesy of the artist


I began this painting during the French elections in 2022. A masked taxi driver at an airport held a phone displaying “Lutz”. The name connected the scene to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Lutz Bacher. The image had become too sombre and kitsch. I kept the associations around Lutz and changed their arrangement.

I glued disco flakes from Lutz Bacher’s 2016 edition, Random Disco Flakes, created in conjunction with the Magic Mountain exhibition, onto the illustration. They recalled the thick kraft-paper covers of her books. I covered the painting with an earthy, kraft-coloured layer, taking (Smoke) Gets In Your Eyes (2008) as a new point of reference. Material from Bacher’s edition led the surface towards another part of her work. A title survived a picture that had failed.


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