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9/3/2004

In my world

Staub(g*fzk!), Zurich

'Leave me alone!' The artists in the current show at gallery Staub(g*fzk!) create their own worlds: autist, strange, discomforting and staged portraits.

Eva Lauterlein (*1977) from Vevey, Switzerland is the youngest artist in the exhibition. The 26-year old shows five square photographs of 30-somethings. Lauterlein type-casts her models and transforms them into something generic. But as indicated by the title 'Les Chimères' (French for chimera), the artist takes them even further: By altering the images on her computer, she changes the represented realities to create irritating portraits of eerie creatures that seem like zombies frozen in their own world. The images evoke uneasiness and yet are spell-binding at the same time.

Klodin Erb (*1963) and Eliane Rutishauser (*1963) both live in Zurich, Switzerland and have, at times, worked collaboratively for the last two years. In their common works from the work cycle 'baby' (2003/2004), they play with the mixing of reality and fiction. Their oil paintings on wood and the differently framed photographs are hung salon-style on the wall. The motif of the work cycle 'baby' is a person created and portrayed by the artists: a woman wearing a black wig and a mask, half sex doll, brought to life; half innocent and vulnerable child. The artists ironic breaking down of familiar visual language and their use of shifting levels of reality create new ways of seeing. Especially for this exhibition, Erb/Rutishauser have created a new, as ‘hand shadow play' filmed video work, which will be projected from outside on the gallery's glass door.

The exhibition 'In my world' introduces filmstills of Klaus Lutz (*1940), an artist who is mostly known by his film installations. Since 1993, the 63 year old Swiss has lived and worked in a tiny apartment in East Village, New York. 'Lutz constructs an artificial world, a universe which is both a result of his imagination and the setting of his art making (Marie-Louise Lienhard). A fully intoverted and mysterious world is created in his living-studio. With a 16mm camera, the artist films own drawings and New York street scenes to which he adds pictures of his own via multiple exposures. Lutz' works lead the way
from looking at others to looking at one's own self. The filmstills provide a new access to the very insular world of Klaus Lutz. In contrast to his films, the stills allow for the slow and attentive study of the density and construction of his pictures.

Whereas Lauterlein portrays 30-somethings in unapproachable, parallytic postures and
Erb/Rutishauser experiment with the creation of a fictive figure, Lutz puts himself fully in the spotlight.

Like Lutz, Zurich based artist team Monica Germann (*1966) & Daniel Lorenzi (*1963) place themselves in the centre. A computer animation with two seesawing figures is shown on a TV monitor. The colors change from strident yellow to gaudy red. Nothing much happens. Occasionally, a bird flies by, then suddenly the camera in the man's hand is sending a flash towards the woman or colorful dots bubble over from the record in the woman's hand towards the man. And yet it is this slowness that enhances the intensity of the scene as a moment of absolute understanding between two lovers, lost in the rhythm of their world, for always and ever, up and down or 'from dusk to dawn', as goes the title of the animation.

Image:
Am Bach, aus Baby, 2003
Klodin Erb / Eliane Rutishauser

Opening: 10. März, 2004, 18.00 bis 20.00

Staub (g*fzk!)
Rotwandstrasse 39 (Holf), CH-8004 Zurich
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