"URS LÜTHI MORE OR LESS y un poquito más"
"URS LÜTHI MORE OR LESS y un poquito más"
22.10.2022-14.01.2023
Aural Galería | Alicante · Labradores 17
We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition URS LÜTHI. MORE OR LESS y un poquito más by the Swiss artist Urs Lüthi. This exhibition is an extension of the artist's first individual exhibition in Madrid, where it took place during the past months from February to April and which will now be held at the Alicante headquarters of the Aural gallery. The central point around which the exhibition revolves is one of the artist's research topics focused on questions of identity and the self-referential.
Thus Fernando Castro Floréz discovers us and breaks down Lüthi's work in the developed text that you can find in the exhibition catalog published in April of this year 2022.
<<... This Swiss artist has declared that “each one of us is truly himself, but also always changing in relation to what is in front of him.” Being somebody might mean being anybody, even though Lüthi’s narcissism is far from “conventional,” activating instead a queer identity which plays with roles, staging its own androgyny. His referential series The numbergirl (1973) seduces us with his crossdressing, without asking for any permission; his eyes fixed on the spectator in a 1976 portrait where he appears naked on a carpet, enjoying himself even if it is by sticking out his tongue (Tell me who stole your Smile, 1974) with the complicity of knowing that comedy can free us from our everyday weariness.
Lüthi regards human condition as the basis for his work: “My conception arose in the mid 1960’s. It is based on the conviction that one can only experience the world and understand it in a subjective way. I’ve taken myself as the subject of my art ‘as mirror of the universe.’” It can give the impression that this artist is sometimes looking for three legs (like in the sculpture Spazio Heart), not so much because he needs a greater stability but rather to enjoy difference and, even when his face is all ablush in Shame (2021), one always gets the impression that he finds enjoyment precisely in parodying the condition of being “out of place.” Lüthi unfolds a chiefly perverse ludic imaginary where, just as it happened in the series Trademarks that he presented at the 2001 Venice Biennale, he blatantly lampoons the art market. ....>>
Fernando Castro Floréz
"Urs Lüthi. More or Less", 2022
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✉ Aural Galería | Alicante · Labradores 17, +34 617050603 | Madrid · Pelayo 68, +34 912595508 | info.auralgaleria.com | www.auralgaleria.com