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Lutz Bacher
Black Beauty, 2012-2013

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Black Beauty
Artist name
Lutz Bacher
Date created
2012-2013
Classification
installation
Medium
silicate, metal, mirror, vinyl, photograph, and sound
Dimensions
dimensions variable
Date acquired
2016
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase
Copyright
© Lutz Bacher
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2016.468.1-5
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

Within this expanse of sparkling black “sand” is a constellation of images and found objects of personal and philosophical significance for Bacher. Among them are a shattered mirror, a sculptural robot with an ashtray for a head and a roach clip for a hand, and an audio recording of an actor reciting lines by the character Puck in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The photograph-identified by Bacher as one of her earliest artworks-depicts her late husband, an astronomer, with his hand in a mudra sign close to his heart. This meditation on the passage of time provokes a deeply cosmological, fractured view of the intimate and the expansive, the minute and the infinite.

Gallery text, 2016

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