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Lazar Lyutakov: The presentation as an object

Datum
Time
Event Label
Lecture series
Organisational Units
Fine Arts
Location Venue (1)
Sculpture Studios
Location Address (1)
Kurzbauergasse 9
Location ZIP and/or City (1)
1020 Vienna
Location Room (1)
Project room 2, 104

A lecture by Lazar Lyutakov, organized by the studio Art & Space | Object as part of the lecture series by the Institute of Fine Arts.

Many of Lazar Lyutakovs works appropriate ordinary articles of our modern mass culture and simple industrial products, presenting them in a way that probes their meanings and ambiguities. He carefully selects the objects and adapts and enhances them with targeted interventions in an effort to analyze contemporary conditions of production and forms of consumption, flows of capital and commodities, and aesthetic mass phenomena and to reflect on values, productivity, quality, and utility in a post-capitalist industrialized world.

Lazar Lyutakov (b. 1977, Shabla, Bulgaria) studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia (1998–2000) and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2005. His work was presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, where he represented Bulgaria together with Rada Boukova, as well as at the 6th Moscow Biennale and the 1st Vienna Biennale at MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has had solo and duo exhibitions at Lavender Opener Chair, Tokyo; À Space, Hanoi; Secession, Vienna; Charim Gallery, Vienna; SIMIAN, Copenhagen; and MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. His work has also been included in numerous international exhibitions at institutions and spaces such as Cairn – Centre dArt, Digne-les-Bains; Fondazione Zimei, Pescara; Punta Gallery, Sofia; GLASSBOX, Paris; Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi; Laurenz, Vienna; Brno House of Arts; and Gallery Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus.