Interview

I met the artist Lutz Bacher once. She was dressed in all black, with a pork-pie hat made of scraps of leather. She had grey hair, and a big silver ring with the head of an H.R. Giger-type alien lunging off her finger.

Smoke (Gets in Your Eyes) (Regency Arts Press) is the first major publication of elusive-as-she-is-weird conceptual artist Lutz Bacher. The catalogue-cum-artist book was assembled as a companion to her two most recent exhibitions, "Spill" at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, and "My Secret Life." which opened this week at P.S.1 in Long Island City.

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