Wanderlust
dal 9/7/2001 al 4/8/2001
Segnalato da
9/7/2001
Wanderlust
De Chiara Stewart, New York
With "Wanderlust", artist Klaus Lutz is director and actor, machinist and dramatist, in an imagined world created for the Genio. These two realities unite in the artist's dynamic film installation. Props, concepts, and relationships are linked together in a prejudice-free, almost classless manner along with the techniques of execution: drawing, film and animation combine an archaic/sophisticated blend.
During World War II, the Opera House in
Genoa was hit by bombs and was reduced
to a deep, massive crater.
Significantly, one detail survived: a
small white sculpture known as "the
Genio", the Opera's symbol of artistic
inspiration. The Genio was place on an
iron structure high above the charred
debris, a refugee from creative
expression itself.
Homeless, isolated,
restricted, one can imagine the Genio
longing for a space in which it could
once again soar, yet knowing full well
that only within the world of idealism,
could its' desires be fulfilled.
With "Wanderlust", artist Klaus Lutz is
director and actor, machinist and
dramatist, in an imagined world created
for the Genio. These two realities
unite in the artist's dynamic film
installation.
Props, concepts, and
relationships are linked together in a
prejudice-free, almost classless manner
along with the techniques of execution:
drawing, film and animation combine an
archaic/sophisticated blend. In the age
of digital imagery, the artist takes
pencil, 16mm movie cameras and the
exertions of his own form or body to
create a narrative of this reality.
Klaus's films intertwine scraps of ideas
and experience to produce this reality
in which the creator (the Genio) crawls,
tumbles, leaps, flies, falls, rises, and
marches on in pure inspired
collaboration within the drawings that
represent his desired world.
In the
main gallery, Lutz presents the Genio's
journeys in two film loops which are
projected onto opposite sides of a large
balloon (8ft. diameter).
Existing in
the gallery's smaller room is an
installation with two film viewers.
Here the visitor can stand and
manipulate the Genio forward, backward,
fast, slow, or frame by frame through
the viewers.
Klaus Lutz is a Swiss born artist living
and working in New York City since
1993. He has been making films and
performing for the last decade. His
films have been screened on television
and in exhibitions throughout
Switzerland.
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, July 11, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday
11:00-6:00 pm
DE CHIARA|STEWART
521 West 26th St.,
New York City 10001