Urs Lüthi

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Urs Lüthi's “ Self-Portrait ” from 2010, today in the park of the Hermannshof cultural monument in Völksen

Urs Lüthi (born September 10, 1947 in Kriens in the canton of Lucerne ) is a Swiss artist , painter , video , performance and installation artist .

life and work

Lüthi attended the arts and crafts school in Zurich from 1963 to 1964 . He then worked as a graphic designer and freelance artist. In 1966 he had his first exhibition in the Beat Mäder gallery in Bern with painting under the influence of Pop Art , entitled Pinksize . In 1969 he turned to photography and had his first successes in 1970 with an exhibition of androgynous self-portraits in the Toni Gerber gallery in Bern. In the photographs he showed himself "... sometimes as a female vamp, sometimes with a feather boa, sometimes with a snakeskin jacket who looks at the viewer with tears in his eyes." In the same year he was at Jean-Christophe Ammann's exhibition Visualized Thought Processes at the Lucerne Art Museum represented. He presented - hanging on the walls and stored in showcases - items of clothing from his closet, his jewelry, his keys, his identity card, as well as photos from the series Sketches and car portraits on a postcard stand . In 1977 he spent a year in the USA.

In 1979 a study by the French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe of Lüthi's photo series 'Just another story about leaving' from 1974 appears.

In 1980 Lüthi began to find his own visual language by painting large-format acrylic paintings. In the late 1980s he turned to art installations. Since 1994 he has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel . At the Venice Biennale 2001 he transformed the Swiss pavilion with the works “ Trademarks, Low action, Game II, Run for your life… ” into an installation room and presented himself with an ironic self-portrayal in the middle of the room, smiling in a jogging suit Sneakers and sunglasses.

Lüthi has been married to actress Ulrike Willenbacher since 1986, and their daughter Maria was born in 1989. He lives and works in Kassel and Munich.

His works are represented in numerous museum collections, for example in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Center Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.

Urs Lüthi's “Self-Portrait as Franz Kafka ” from 2015, Passerpromenade, Merano

In 2009 Lüthi received the Arnold Bode Prize from the documenta city ​​of Kassel . In 2015 he was one of the first three participants in the Merano art initiative MenschenBilder - Figure Umane (together with the sculptors Aron Demetz and Stephan Balkenhol ) . "Memorial sculptures" were supposed to be erected on the Merano Passeier promenade for people with a connection to the city of Merano - in his case it was Franz Kafka . Lüthi's contribution was a self-portrait as Franz Kafka while he was writing the novel "The Metamorphosis" . In 2010 Lüthi was awarded the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne .

Exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Urs Lüthi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Pfrunder among others: Photo suisse, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-036-7
  2. ↑ Biography on newmedia-art.org ( Memento from December 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Urs Stahel: Lüthi, Urs. In: Sikart (status: 2011), accessed on August 21, 2015.
  4. ^ Reprint 1979 AQ-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-922441-10-6 , with an essay by Bernd Mattheus
  5. ↑ Original title: Portrait de l'artiste, en général. German translation: artist portrait, general, AQ-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-922441-15-1
  6. ^ Biography of the Kunsthochschule Kassel ( memento from February 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ kunstmeranoarte.org: MenschenBilder 2015 (accessed on November 2, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Lüthi, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Kriens , Canton of Lucerne