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25/9/2003

The Caveman

mullerdechiara, Berlin

Klaus Lutz

"I feel how little it concerns me, everything that's called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me,"but in the end, this "individual me is only a zero" from Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten, 1908.

Since 1993, the 63 year old Swiss artist Klaus Lutz has been in retreat, in a sense, in his "live/work cave" in New York's East Village. He's been hard at work constructing the nothing, a phrase borrowed from a 1918 text by Swiss author Robert Walser, Der Hoehlenmensch. Translated, the title reads "The Caveman," also the title of Lutz's first solo exhibition in Berlin. The exhibition lets us into, or perhaps rather extroverts upon us, the self-created world of a charming, introverted hermit, and simultaneously asks us to dismiss the meaning of this world, or at least to let it rest. As Walser phrased it in Der Hoehlenmensch, "The difficult questions we would like to resolve themselves. Therefore, for the time being, we¹d better leave them neatly unanswered." With a 16mm Rolex camera, the artist has filmed his own drawings, and by means of double exposure has inserted his own image within the drawings, interacting with the calligraphic, repetitious icons he created with his pen. Shot on black and white Plus-X reversal film, the resulting projections manage to increase the contrast of his completely black, white, and red live-in studio/cave within the contained space of the projection frame. The entire work is created alone, but images snapped up on bicycle rides through New York as well as from aerial shots of the city interact with the scenes created in his small studio. As the artist articulates, "Orbit" and "Underground" appear woven together like two voices, soprano and bass. Each voice believes itself to be autonomous but it isn't."

The films "The Caveman" and "Star News" will be projected onto two large weather balloons , and acccompanied by a series of drawings from the films in white liquid chalk onto black plastic paper. Lutz has designed a special pulley-system for the film to travel across the room. The artist will be present for the entirety of the exhibition and will present "The Caveman" as a performance on the 2nd of October at 7pm.
Klaus Lutz is born in St.Gallen and is currently living and working inNew York since 1993.He has been making films and performing for the last decade, recently exhibiting at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam, Helmhaus in Zurich and at the Swiss Institute in New York.

Image: Klaus Lutz, lying down

Vernissage: sept 26th 2003, 6pm

Exhibition: sept 27th - nov 8th 2003, tues-sat 12-7pm.

Performance october 2nd 7pm

For further questions please contact Laurie De Chiara or Matthieu Blès at +49-30-39032040.

mullerdechiara is participating on the following art fairs in autumn:
Art Forum Berlin, 1.10. - 5.10. 2003 (project by Ellen Harvey)
FIAC Paris, 9.10. - 13.10. 2003
Artissima, Torino, 6.11. - 9.11. 2003

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weydingerstrasse 10
10178 berlin
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