Lutz Bacher

Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco

Mincher/Wilcox Gallery

Installation view of a corner in a room and works on the walls. Two walls meet in the center of the image. On our left, we can see a work in the form of a mirror with small, black text in the center, hanging on the wall. In the mirror, we can see the reflection of the right wall from out of frame, and three works in the form of mirrors with text in the center of the same square dimensions. On the right wall, we can see another mirror with black text in the center. Reflected in this mirror, we can see another mirror of the same series, hanging on the left wall out of frame. In that mirror, we can see two additional mirrors reflected from elsewhere in the room. The image is in greyscale with a tint of orange.

Installation view of a corner in a room and works on the walls. Two walls meet in the center of the image. On the wall to our left, we can see a work in the form of a mirror with small, black text in the center, hanging on the wall. In the mirror, we can see the reflection of the right wall, from out of frame, and three mirrors works with text in the same dimensions and of the same series. On the right wall, we can see another mirror with black text in the center. Reflected in this mirror, we can see a mirror work of the same series hanging on the left wall and out of frame, In that mirror, we can see two additional mirrors reflected from elsewhere in the room. The image is in greyscale.

Tighter installation view of a corner in a room and works on the walls. Two walls meet in the center of the image. On the wall to our left, we can see a work in the form of a mirror with small, black text in the center, hanging on the wall. In the mirror, we can see the reflection of the right wall, out of frame, and a work in the form of a mirror with text in of the same series. In the mirror, we can see three additional mirrors of the same series reflected from elsewhere in the room. On the right wall, we can see another mirror with black text in the center. Reflected in this mirror, we can see three mirror works from the same series hanging on the left wall out of frame. The image is in greyscale and has the texture of a photo copy.

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a short paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Jon --I beat off whenever I see the doctor for a checkup. You know, while you wait in one of those little rooms? It's so ster- ile in there. So clean. And tissues are always handy."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a short paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Karl --A lot of men will say they are searching for the father figure, a man like their old man. I am literally searching for my father. I saw one picture of him--naked, hard, on a bed in a crummy mo- tel. I found it in my mom's locked drawer, which I busted open. I wanted to find out who he was. I never learned the name, but I have his body memorized. His cock is the only cock I see when I beat off."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a short paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Keir --I bring myself to an orgasm with my electric toothbrush. I buy the soft-bristle brushes and just tickle myself until I shoot."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Mark --I'm a businessman, and I have to be very discreet. The leather scene, especially motorcycles and men dressed in Hell's Angel's type gear, fascinates me. After seeing the film Scorpio Rising some years ago, I decided to buy a motorcy- cle. It sits in my garage, but it has never been used. At least, not for transportation. I use it all the time in another way. I go to the garage, take off my pants, kneel on the cold con- crete floor, and stick my dick up the exhaust pipe and jerk off. Gallons of come must be up there by now."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Brian --I'm eighteen and I'm gay, but I've never had sex with another guy. I know I'm gay because I've been excited by men ever since I could remember. I just haven't been able to bring myself to do something physical with anyone yet. And I live at home still. I have had a good education in what is done, though. I read a lot of books, especially good pornogra- phy. I think my best fantasy is something that has to do with a guy taking a piss as I'm kissing him. I mean pissing on me or into my pants. I think the feeling of my legs getting hot and wet as he kisses me would be enough to make me come. I feel so good being able to tell this to someone! I've thought about it for a year, and I don't have a gay friend I can talk to. I sometimes pee on myself. I pee in my jeans just before I throw them into the washing machine when the maid is doing the laundry. I find it very easy to come when I'm covered with my hot piss. But it would be better if it was someone else's."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a short paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Mel --Why, I do it in phone booths. No, I don't make obscene calls, but I like it if a cute kid goes by on his bicycle and sees me. I get out of there before he can get home and tell his parents. But I leave a nice puddle of come on the floor."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Dan --I'm on a battlefield, and I run into a ditch and find only one soldier. He's hurt. I see he's alive and ask what has hap- pened. He says he was stunned by a bomb. Then he says the only way I can make him better is to go down on him. So I pull his long dick out of his green Army pants and take it in my mouth. Shells fly overhead. I don't care. I suck him off, and the hell with the war. Then, later, after he's come in my mouth, I realize he looks exactly like my brother back home."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Daniel --I'm a homosexual who turns on to women's clothing. I jerk off into a bra or a pair of lace panties. Sometimes I get up enough nerve to do it in a crowded dress section of a de- partment store. I pretend I'm leaning against a rack. I think I want to be caught, but no one ever seems to notice."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a line of text printed in black on the mirror. The font is a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Ed --In the shower, with lots of lather on my dick."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a short paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: " Orin --Urine turns me on. I sent away to a kid who mails his wet shorts to you for ten bucks. I put them over my head and beat off, and it was incredible."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Fritz --I have a real long penis, and I can put it up my own ass- hole when it's half-hard. I come like that, working the shaft with my fingertips. I hold my balls aside with my other hand, kinda rubbing them, which feels good. I once made a film of me fucking myself. I loved watching the cream running out of my anal opening when I popped my cock out. I don't like fucking other guys nearly as much as myself. I guess you'd really have to call it masturbating inside my asshole."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Paul --Paul is twenty-three, works in a car wash, and goes to night school. --I'm a book freak. Dirty books, paperbacks. I buy a whole stack of them at the dirty-book store in Hollywood, and I take one and start reading it (when I am home), and when I get to a hot part that really turns me on, I press my cock into the book and kinda wrap the pages around it and move it up and down, and I come like that. The page get all filled with semen and stick together, and it feels kinda like I fucked the girl I was reading about. I use the same books again and again until they are so stuck together they won't even open anymore."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Gene --Who says gay guys don't use rubbers? Bullshit. I not only use them when I have sex with my lover (he likes to be fucked with French ticklers), but when I beat off. I love the prelubricated kind, all wet and mushy and feeling like a warm mouth. Sometimes I use the same rubber over and over, each time feeling my own cream covering the head of my cock. I get excited etching the head of one of those bal- loons fill with my cream. Sometimes my lover sucks the cream out of a rubber I've used when he gets home from work. I've even mailed rubbers full of my cream to guys I know who can dig it."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Philip --I get off on thinking of young housewives, home all day while the husband is off at work and the kids are at school. I see a beautiful woman of about twenty-eight, horny as hell, standing in the kitchen, rubbing her pussy against the edge of the counter. Then she gets a carrot out of the refrigerator, or maybe a stick of celery. She sticks it up her cunt and wiggles it around. Or the head of a bottle, or even a wooden spoon. All kinds of things. I once had a great orgasm thinking of a woman sliding a Polish sausage in and out of her pussy, and then cooking it for her husband."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "George --George was married--for fifteen days--when he was eighteen. "It just didn't work out," he now says. At twenty- seven, he's trim and good-looking. --I never had a wet dream in my whole entire life! I think it's because I always have been a crazy masturbator. I mean, I pound the pud night and day. I can't stand it. I work for my father, in my own office, and I spent most of the day just beating off under my desk. I even did it once in the confer- ence room, right during a meeting of the old board of direc- tors. I can't keep my hands off my dick. I fantasize about everything, a woman I may have met that morning coming in the building, a dirty picture I saw the week before, a movie star sucking my cock..."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Rand --I picture myself as being able to suck my own cock. I work at it until I succeed in making my spinal column so flexible that I can take almost the entire organ into my mouth. I lie on the couch or the bed, and as my orgasm ap- proaches, I roll and writhe and gasp in my own pleasure, curled up like some animal, until I come in my own mouth, and then I suck myself dry. I feel like some kind of hero."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Glen --I'd love to watch a group of women masturbate each other; I've often fantasized that "sewing circles" and "bridge clubs" are cover-ups for organized feminist finger-fucking sessions."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black on the mirror. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Robert --I work in a restaurant. You asked me about jerking off and where I do it? Guess! Yeah, people eat omelettes with my jism in them. Hell, the stuff has protein, right? I had worked as a cook in a big place, and I was always thinking of what it would be like to cream in the food and stick my head out the door and watch them customers stuffing down my jism. So when I got this job in a small place, I'm usually alone back there. It's easy to whip out my dick and dream into the whip- ping cream. Or to jerk off into the ice-cream high-protein drink we serve. I just increase the protein. I know a crazy guy who used to piss into the orange juice in the hotel restau- rant he worked in. I don't have that kind of nerve yet, but it excites me."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Hal --I've been working on a high-rise building for almost a year now. Got at least another year to go. It's right across from a hospital. Well, every morning at ten-thirty, when we have a break, I go to the edge of one of the floors. I take out my cock and wave it a little, and I can see the orderlies and nursers gather in the floors across from me. Some beautiful patients, too. Then I jerk myself off, and the comes flies through the air. I know I'm the attraction of their fucking day over there. One of these days I'm gonna have this guy I work with suck me off in front of them. They'll fall outta the fucking window over there! I don't like screwing chicks all that much, but I don't mind them watching me jerking or getting it on with another dude."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Roger --I have an automobile fetish. I go to new-car lots, and if I can get my cock out before the salesman gets there, I come right away. I love the smell of new cars. I had my first blow- job in one when I was sixteen. My dad's brother brought his new Nash over to show our family, but no one was home but me. I hopped in, and he reached over and started playing with me and finally got my cock into his mouth. I closed my eyes and let myself enjoy it. I've never forgotten that new-car smell and that sensual feeling."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Ivan --I like to masturbate right into my undershorts. Es- pecially when my cock is pointing downward, the head against my balls. There's nothing like the feeling of the pounds of Jockey shorts filling with that hot stuff, just feeling it swim around your balls. I do it all the time, everywhere. In restau- rants when I'm eyeing some kid I'd like to make, or if I have a waiter with a nice basket. I like to do it in the movies, even at concerts. I once did it while dressed in a tux a the open- ing night of a new opera! I sometimes wear two pairs of shorts so it will soak up and not come through my pants and make everything all wet. I do it all the time in porno book- stores. Why buy a magazine full of guys sucking and fucking for six bucks, when you can jerk off to it right there for a noth- ing? And never even have to pull your cock out of your pants."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Ron --Wanna tip for jacking off? Use your left hand if you're right-handed, and vice versa. Why? Your cock feels bigger when you hold it with the other hand. Try it. See?"

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Jack --Outdoors. Only place to jerk off. In the sun. Feel it on your hard dick, let it make your nuts sweat. Come all over your stomach and cheat and hear it sizzle. Outside's the only place to do it!"

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Sam --I jerk off into clothes, usually pants or shirts that feel good on my penis. I lie to do this in fitting rooms in depart- ment stores. I take in two pairs of pants and try one pair on while I masturbate into the other pair. When I hang them on the rack, no one notices. Until some other guy comes along to try them on. I especially like fitting rooms with mirrors, so I can watch myself do it. I like to come in the armpit of a shirt. I like to think about a beautiful man taking that shirt into a fitting room later to try it on, and them finding that his arm is suddenly all covered with spunk."

Close view of one of the mirrors seen in previous installation images. The mirror is square, and in the center we can see a paragraph of text printed in black. The text is justified, and the font a serif. Despite the reflection of the text in the mirror, we can read the following when zooming in: "Johnny --I get off on watching people fuck, through windows, on the movie screen, in magazines. I'm a voyeur. But I add a thought in my mind to everything I'm seeing--that the people are tied up and I'm their master. I saw a young couple fuck- ing in their bedroom once, from my apartment window, and I could actually, in my mind, picture the ropes around their naked bodies, and they were screaming to be let free, and I said, "No, you have to fuck for me first! I have to see the come run out of her pussy before I set you free!" And man, did that stud bang the hell out of her! He rammed her so hard I thought I was going to come! And it was because I was directing their lovemaking, I was the one in control. I often see myself spreading a chick's legs open wide so a fellow can eat her snatch, but only as a reward after he's fucked her in the ass because of my instructions, or let himself be stuffed by a dildo in her hands. I get my kicks being the person who arranges sex sessions, and everyone involved is performing for me, and they get rewarded for it."

Lutz BacherMen in LoveMincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco

Exhibition Images

Lutz BacherMen in Love
Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco