Nolan Lucidi's First Institutional Solo Show at Kunsthaus Glarus

Kunsthaus Glarus presents Nolan Lucidi's first institutional solo exhibition, "Bildersaal," featuring an installation of videos and objects. The work explores male homosexual desire in literature and art history, drawing from personal experience. Lucidi reinterprets Minimalist forms and authority, overlaying them with auto-fictional and erotic narratives. A display case outside references James Baldwin's stays in Leukerbad (1951-1952), where he wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Stranger in the Village," and his love affair with Lucien Happersberger. Lucidi's 2026 work "Literary Architecture: Loèche-les-Bains" highlights this relationship. The exhibition's second part transforms the side-lit gallery into a poetic choreography of moving images and metal objects echoing Donald Judd, exploring seeing, being seen, and desire. Lucidi's "Screening Sculptures" are anthropomorphic narrative figures that serve as both screens and corporeal objects. His method involves associative overlapping of archival images, photographs, and 3D renderings on transparent foil, filmed on a lightbox. The work "Untitled (Slice of Life)" (2024) features etched portraits of Happersberger and Baldwin at their respective heights, with shadows meeting fleetingly. Curated by Annette Amberg, the exhibition runs until May 24, 2026.