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Charles LutzTHE INCORRUPTIBLE, Stainless Steel Yacht / Boat Christening Bottle Sculpture2014
2014
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THE INCORRUPTIBLE
Polished stainless steel.
12 X 3.75" (30.5 x 9.5 cm)
Edition of 5
2014
THE INCORRUPTIBLE is an important example of Lutz's Christening Series, a grouping of paintings and sculptures which focuses on the creation of value. Christening bottles, often wrapped in festive netting or ribbon, were used at elaborate events to celebrate the launching of a war ship, yacht, boat, or other vessel. Ticker tape parades, speeches, and flowers framed a prominent female whose honor it was to smash the christening bottle against the bow of the ship before it is launched into the water for the first time. Value and the transference of value are reoccurring themes in Lutz's work and in the Christening series, Lutz employs utilitarian materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, and raw linen to convey functionality and strength with the value of cost and purpose. The result is hyper realism and elegant simplicity which display Lutz's mastery of materials, texture, and color.
Lutz has been exhibited and done major projects with The New Museum, New York, NY, The Armory Show, New York, NY, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Artipelag Museum, Stockholm Sweden amongst others. Lutz lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
* This is a stainless steel cast sculpture and does not contain alcohol
- Creator:Charles Lutz (1982, American)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Diameter: 3.75 in (9.53 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU122725033012
Charles Lutz
Charles Lutz received his BFA in painting and art history from Pratt Institute and studied human dissection and anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values.
Lutz's 2007 “Warhol Denied” series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Andy Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project being "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner, to create a site-specific installation representing the United States. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1,500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 feet tall. All 1,500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers.
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