Matthew Lutz-Kinoy

(*1984, US)
The Rising and Setting of the Sun, 2020
Wood, steel, plexiglas, acrylic paint, resin, canvas
700 × 50 × 500 cm

Through doubling and reflection, the site-specific work of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reveals a scene  within a scene, a backdrop inside the landscape of the park. The triptych The Rising and Setting of the Sun is contained within a narrative structure which plays with the erotic and the temptations of the decorative. This work comes at a time in our history that requires radical changes in balances of power. By means of the apparent lightness of the pastel chromaticism of the “carnations fardées” (made-up complexions) and the patterns found in Rococo paintings of the 18th century by François Boucher (for Madame de Pompadour’s Chateau Bellevue), the work of Lutz-Kinoy fractures the political question of the gendered gaze, between the Rococo’s aestheticization of the female body and today’s gay visibility.