THE STRUCTURE OF AN ERROR Matthew Rana on Lutz Bacher at Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Lutz Bacher’s works draw on strategies of the objet trouvé, appropriation, and pop-cultural references while refusing the stabilizing effects of scholarly or formalist art -historical frameworks. Bacher worked under a male pseudonym throughout her career, and the posthumous retrospective in Oslo, which will travel to Brussels next year, accentuates the open-ended nature of the artist’s practice. As Matthew Rana notes in his review, the exhibition brackets Bacher’s more explicitly political pieces; what comes to the fore instead is the comedic charge of a position that through associative encounters with the viewer prompts questions about one’s own position within this play of signifiers.
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