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Vera Lutter
Artist's Name: Vera Lutter
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1960
Nationality: DE
City: New York

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Vera Lutter creates large-scale photographs representing scenes of contemporary architecture, transportation, and industry. The process she uses leads to images that are both immediately recognizable and yet strangely alien. Lutter employs a device known as a camera obscura ("dark room" in Latin), which was used to produce direct images of reality for several centuries before the invention of photography. A camera obscura is made by creating a small opening in an otherwise sealed room or chamber. Light from an external source penetrates the opening, which acts as a lens, and is cast, upside down, on an opposite surface. To make an image, Lutter creates a temporary camera obscura at a site and places a large sheet of photosensitized paper where the projected image falls, exposing it to the light. The exposure may last hours or even days, and Lutter usually remains in the room for the entire period. When the image is developed it is in negative form. [...]While Lutter's images are direct, virtually unmediated records of the world as it is, her work should not be mistaken for straightforward objective documentation. As critic and curator Russell Ferguson observes: 'Their implacability evokes not the techniques of scientific observation but rather a reverie driven by the equally implacable passing away of time itself. Past and present are brought together in a moment of stillness that is in fact achieved only over an extended period. The long length of the exposure...filters out all the incidental movement and bustle of daily life, leaving only the skeleton of a present that is steadily and irrevocably receding into the past.' (Galerie Max Hetzler)

important exhibitions from Vera Lutter

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Vera Lutter - Nabisco Factory, Beacon Dia: Beacon Beacon US 15.05.2005
Vera Lutter Kunsthalle Basel Basel CH 01.01.2001
Vera Lutter Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue New York US 15.03.2007
Vera Lutter Fort Worth US 29.10.2005
Vera Lutter Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue New York US 05.04.2003
Vera Lutter Graz AT 28.02.2004
"Mixed Use, Manhattan" Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS Madrid ES 09.06.2010
Vera Lutter Berlin DE 04.09.2008
Vera Lutter Max Hetzler Galerie Berlin DE 15.05.2004

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Galleries representing
Vera Lutter:

Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
COOK FINE ART New York
Gagosian Gallery - Rom
Gagosian Gallery Athen
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street
Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
Gagosian Gallery West 21st Street
Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street
Galerie Xippas
Galleria Cardi
Maurice Keitelman Gallery
Max Hetzler Galerie
Xippas Gallery, Athen

Collections representing
Vera Lutter

Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea
MoCP- The Museum of Contemporary Photography
Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, TBA21