Introduction of the artist:

Lutz and Guggisberg (Switzerland)

Andres Lutz born in 1968, Wettingen, Switzerland. Anders Guggisberg born in 1966, Biel, Switzerland. Live and work in Zurich.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2013 MUDAM Luxembourg; 2010 Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 2009 Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; 2008 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; 2009 Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany;
Selected group exhibitions: 2011 Science & Fiction, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland; 2010 Negotiations, Today Art Museum, Beijing; 2008 There is no Road, Centro de Arte Gijon, Spain; 2007 8th Sharjah Biennal, United Arab Emirates. 

Introduction of works:

Living Objects, synchronized 3-channel video with sound for flat screens, 13'22'', 2012

Swiss artists Lutz and Guggisberg’s work encompasses video, painting, installation and sculptural pieces revealing their funny melancholy and existential proposition borne out of a pervasive absurdity. As a result their practice is as free as it is sceptical.

Lutz and Guggisberg have a light touch on the profoundest truths. Their ambiguity is philosophical, and they understand well that true words can be most effectively spoken in jest. They invent cartoon-like characters who often struggle in scenarios that are roughly drawn or modelled in mixed media, and we easily identify with them. Pushed and pulled around, unable to escape, confused, endlessly repeating an action, they are at once pathetic and heroic. The artists’ abject style is completely appropriate for a world that has been subjected to human improvisations, trials and errors that point towards a future not reigned by right or reason.