Lutz Bacher: Magic Mountain May 21 – July 31, 2016 MediaPressEventsMoreSelect Reviews"Back in Los Angeles, the denser, darker cacophony of Lutz Bacher’s four-channel video PLEASE (LC) (2013–15) clamored in the dim yellow basement of 356 S. Mission Rd. A clip of Leonard Cohen peering out from a blue curtain and singing a bar was repeated in semi-random sequence across four projectors. In the center of the room rose the show’s titular Magic Mountain (2015), a head-high pile of spikey blue modules of acoustic foam. Designed to muffle the walls of a recording studio, here they weren’t absorbing much." – Travis Diehl for X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, December 2016"For Magic Mountain, the great central chamber of 356 S. Mission is left largely empty, the better for its scale to act on visitors. As you gaze up, over, across—at other people; at The Alps, 2015, a giant Mylar hanging of blue and white snowy crests; at Blue Infinite (Horizon), 2016, a blue chalk line running the length of the back wall—Bacher is creeping up on you via Divine Transportation, 2016, iridescent glitter coating the floor like the barest dusting of snow." – Claudia La Rocco for Artforum.com, June 2016"Like a film set left to its own devices, Bacher's recent exhibition Magic Mountain at 356 S. Mission in Los Angeles is an array of stilled and salvaged objects, such as a movie backdrop found in a film surplus store, craft glitter and soft peaks of audio-foam. Walking about, the body recognizes almost instantly the futility of approaching such a landscape in any other way than affectively." – Sabrina Tarasoff for cmagazine, Issue 133, Spring 2017"The most subtle and striking element here is that the floor glistens with iridescent glitter (a limited edition of 'bottled' glitter, signed by the artist, is for sale in the bookstore. The glitter might be superfluous, but it beautifully complements the giant, billboard-size photograph of show-covered mountains that hangs from a beam in the ceiling and horizontally extends out onto the floor of the gallery space." – Jody Zeller for ArtScene, July/August 2016 My Name Is Lutz screening June 30, 2016 PLEASE: Symposium in conjunction with Lutz Bacher “Magic Mountain” June 10, 2016 Lutz Bacher opening reception May 21, 2016